On the swimming of a flexible body in a vortex street

DOI10.1017/S0022112009990619zbMath1183.76652MaRDI QIDQ3550359

Silas Alben

Publication date: 31 March 2010

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

74F10: Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.)

92C10: Biomechanics

76Z10: Biopropulsion in water and in air

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