Numerical experiments on flapping foils mimicking fish-like locomotion

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Blondeaux, Paolo ^a   Fornarelli, Francesco ^a   Guglielmini, Laura ^a   Triantafyllou, Michael S ^b   Verzicco, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY;

FISH LIKE LOCOMOTION; FLAPPING FOILS;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 30044449546     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2131923     Document Type: Article

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