Locomotion with flexible propulsors: I. Experimental analysis of pectoral fin swimming in sunfish

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lauder, George V ^a   Madden, Peter G A ^a   Mittal, Rajat ^b   Dong, Haibo ^b   Bozkurttas, Meliha ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLEXIBLE PECTORAL FIN; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL KINEMATICS;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FISH; FLUID DYNAMICS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; EXTREMITIES; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERCIFORMES; SWIMMING;

EID: 33847648545     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/1/4/S04     Document Type: Conference Paper

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