Underlying principle of efficient propulsion in flexible plunging foils

DOI10.1007/S10409-014-0114-XMaRDI QIDQ531064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Xiao-Jue Zhu, Xing Zhang, Guowei He

Publication date 3 August 2016

Published in Acta Mechanica Sinica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-014-0114-x

zbMATH Keywords

flexibilityhydrodynamic wake resonancepropulsive efficiencystructural resonance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Biophysics (92C05) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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