Why don't mackerels swim like eels? The role of form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of undulatory swimming
Abstract
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- September 2009
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhFl...21i1109B
- Keywords:
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- biomechanics;
- flow simulation;
- hydrodynamics;
- numerical analysis;
- viscosity;
- vortices;
- wakes;
- 47.11.-j;
- 02.60.-x;
- 47.15.Tr;
- 66.20.-d;
- 47.85.Dh;
- 47.63.-b;
- 47.32.-y;
- Computational methods in fluid dynamics;
- Numerical approximation and analysis;
- Laminar wakes;
- Viscosity of liquids;
- diffusive momentum transport;
- Hydrodynamics hydraulics hydrostatics;
- Biological fluid dynamics;
- Vortex dynamics;
- rotating fluids