Optimal undulatory swimming for a single fish-like body and for a pair of interacting swimmers

We establish through numerical simulation conditions for optimal undulatory propulsion for a single fish, and for a pair of hydrodynamically interacting fish, accounting for linear and angular recoil. We first employ systematic two-dimensional (2-D) simulations to identify conditions for minimal pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maertens, Audrey, Gao, Amy, Triantafyllou, Michael S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Ocean Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120090
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1102-8733
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4960-7060