Swimming hydrodynamics: Ten questions and the technical approaches needed to resolve them

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-35

  Lauder, George V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFECT; KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; MOVING ANIMALS; PROPULSORS; THREE DIMENSIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; UNSTEADY CONDITIONS; VORTEX WAKES;

ANIMALS; DEFORMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 79959518938     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-009-0765-8     Document Type: Article

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