Modeling a swimming fish with an initial boundary value problem: Unsteady maneuvers of an elastic plate with internal force generation

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 77-93

  Librizzi, N N ^a   Long Jr , J H ^b   Root, R G ^c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic locomotion Partial differential equations; Elastic beams; Fish physiology; Fish swimming; Undulatory swimming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033486136     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7177(99)00199-5     Document Type: Article

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