Hydromechanics of lunate-tail swimming propulsion. Part 2

DOI10.1017/S0022112077000032zbMATH Open0405.76081OpenAlexW2060851219MaRDI QIDQ4191806FDOQ4191806

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Publication date: 1977

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112077000032

zbMATH Keywords

Aquatic AnimalsCetacean MammalsLunate Tails

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cited In (10)

• Undulatory and oscillatory swimming
• Scaling laws for the propulsive performance of three-dimensional pitching propulsors
• Lunate-tail swimming propulsion. Part 2. Performance analysis
• Energetics of oscillating lifting surfaces by the use of integral conservation laws
• Propulsive performance of oscillating plates with time-periodic flexibility
• Lunate-tail swimming propulsion as a problem of curved lifting line in unsteady flow. Part 1. Asymptotic theory
• Energetics and optimum motion of oscillating lifting surfaces of finite span
• Analysis of swimming three-dimensional waving plates
• Characteristics of flow over traveling wavy foils in a side-by-side arrangement
• On the best design for undulatory swimming

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