Mechanical models of sandfish locomotion reveal principles of high performance subsurface sand-swimming

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 62, 2011, Pages 1332-1345

  Maladen, Ryan D ^a   Ding, Yang ^a   Umbanhowar, Paul B ^b   Kamor, Adam ^a   Goldman, Daniel I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Granular; Lizard; Locomotion; Modelling; Robot; Swimming

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; DISCRETE PARTICLE SIMULATION; DRAG FORCES; FORWARD SPEED; GLASS PARTICLES; GRANULAR; GRANULAR MEDIA; GRANULAR MEDIUM; HIGH-SPEED; LIZARD; MECHANICAL MODEL; MODELLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL MODEL; RESISTIVE FORCE THEORY; SINUSOIDAL WAVE; SWIMMING; UNDULATORY LOCOMOTION; WAVE EFFICIENCY; WAVE SPEED; XRAY IMAGING;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; DRAG; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; KINEMATICS; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING; THEORY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

SCINCUS SCINCUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79961111551     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0678     Document Type: Review

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