Swimming freely near the ground leads to flow-mediated equilibrium altitudes

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.540MaRDI QIDQ5229795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Melike Kurt, Jackson Cochran-Carney, Qiang Zhong, Amin Mivehchi, Daniel B. Quinn, Keith W. Moored

Publication date 19 August 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.540

zbMATH Keywords

propulsionflow-structure interactionsswimming/flying

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

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