A fast-starting mechanical fish that accelerates at 40 m s-2

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Conte, J ^a   Modarres Sadeghi, Y ^a,b   Watts, M N ^a   Hover, F S ^a   Triantafyllou, M S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION SIGNALS; CUTTING MECHANISMS; FISH MODELS; FUNCTION OF TIME; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; THIN METALS; VORTEX RINGS;

FISH; FLOW VISUALIZATION; KINETICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ACCELERATION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; FISH; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ROBOTICS;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; FISHES; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS;

EID: 77956737372     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/3/035004     Document Type: Article

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