Modelling elastic fish-like swimmers

What is it about?

The flexible plates studied here can be thought of as a simplified model of a full swimmer or of a flapping propulsor. The plate kinematics is the passive outcome of a strongly-coupled fluid structure interaction problem, which differentiates them from muscle-driven case of animal swimmers.

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Why is it important?

The use of a complete model as the one presented here is crucial to obtain an accurate description of the model swimmers, in particular in the context of designing realistic bio-inspired applications.

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