Large amplitude lunate-tail theory of fish locomotion

DOI10.1017/S0022112076001742zbMath0345.76060OpenAlexW1971166627MaRDI QIDQ4114911

M. G. Chopra

Publication date: 1976

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112076001742

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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