Dynamics of freely swimming flexible foils

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Alben, Silas ^a   Witt, Charles ^b   Baker, T Vernon ^b   Anderson, Erik ^b   Lauder, George V ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GROVE CITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; PHYSICS;

FLUID FORCES; SCALINGS; SWIMMING SPEED; THIN FOIL; USE-MODEL;

RIGIDITY;

EID: 84861974784     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4709477     Document Type: Article

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