Wake structures behind a swimming robotic lamprey with a passively flexible tail

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 416-425

  Leftwich, Megan C ^a,e   Tytell, Eric D ^b,f   Cohen, Avis H ^c   Smits, Alexander J ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e The George Washington University   (United States)

^f TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anguilliform swimming; Flexibility; Hydrodynamics; Lamprey; Thrust production

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER; HYDRODYNAMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LAMPREY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLIABILITY; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING; TAIL;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAMPREYS; PLIABILITY; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING; TAIL;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ICHTHYOMYZON UNICUSPIS; PETROMYZONTIDAE;

EID: 84856624519     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.061440     Document Type: Article

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