Swimming performance of a biomimetic compliant fish-like robot

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 927-939

  Epps, Brenden P ^a   Valdivia Y Alvarado, Pablo ^a   Youcef Toumi, Kamal ^a   Techet, Alexandra H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; FISH LIKE SWIMMING; FISH-LIKE ROBOT; FLAPPING FREQUENCY; FLUORESCENT DYES; STATIC LOAD TESTS; SWIMMING ROBOT; SWIMMING SPEED; VORTEX CIRCULATION; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

BIOMIMETICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROBOTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

SPEED;

EID: 71249140241     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-009-0684-8     Document Type: Article

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