Hydromechanics of lunate-tail swimming propulsion

DOI10.1017/S002211207400245XzbMATH Open0289.76063MaRDI QIDQ4041301FDOQ4041301

Authors: M. G. Chopra 

Publication date: 1974

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

Cites Work

• Aquatic animal propulsion of high hydromechanical efficiency

Cited In (6)

• Undulatory and oscillatory swimming
• Lunate-tail swimming propulsion. Part 2. Performance analysis
• Energetics of oscillating lifting surfaces by the use of integral conservation laws
• Effect of trailing-edge shape on the self-propulsive performance of heaving flexible plates
• Energetics and optimum motion of oscillating lifting surfaces of finite span
• Analysis of swimming three-dimensional waving plates

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