On the swimming of a flexible body in a vortex street

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 635, Issue , 2009, Pages 27-45

  Alben, Silas ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; ASPECT RATIO; EFFICIENCY; WAKES;

APPROXIMATE FORMULAS; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DAMPING PARAMETERS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; THEORETICAL MODELING;

VORTEX FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SWIMMING; VISCOELASTICITY; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 71049187384     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009990619     Document Type: Article

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