Vortex-enhanced propulsion

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 668, Issue , 2011, Pages 5-32

  Ruiz, Lydia A ^a   Whittlesey, Robert W ^b   Dabiri, John O ^b,c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

swimming flying; vortex flows; wakes jets

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; PROPULSION; RINGS (COMPONENTS); VEHICLES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; LARGE-SCALE VORTICES; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY; PLANAR LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCIES; SWIMMING/FLYING; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; WAKES/JETS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DRAG; FLOW FIELD; HYDRODYNAMICS; JET FLOW; UNDERWATER VEHICLE; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79951610732     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004908     Document Type: Article

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