Why don’t mackerels swim like eels? The role of form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of undulatory swimming

DOI10.1063/1.3205869zbMath1183.76102OpenAlexW1980718275MaRDI QIDQ5304773

Iman Borazjani, Fotis Sotiropoulos

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3205869

zbMATH Keywords

vorticeswakesviscosityhydrodynamicsbiomechanicsflow simulationnumerical analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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• Curvilinear immersed boundary method for simulating fluid structure interaction with complex 3D rigid bodies

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