It has long been proposed that flying and swimming animals could exploit neighbour-
induced flows. Despite this it is still not clear whether, and if so how, schooling fish …

The swimming of aquatic animals and flying of insects and birds have fascinated physicists
and biologists for more than a century. In this regard, great efforts have been made to …

Since the birth of bio-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles, a controversial topic, ie,
whether and to what extent a flapping wing can outperform conventional micro rotors, has …

Collective behaviour defines the lives of many animal species on the Earth. Underwater
swarms span several orders of magnitude in size, from coral larvae and krill to tunas and …

Microfluidics has enabled a revolution in the manipulation of small volumes of fluids.
Controlling flows at larger scales and faster rates, or macrofluidics, has broad applications …

The study is motivated by the quest to understand hydrodynamic interactions and wake
dynamics of fish schooling. Using the constraint immersed boundary method, the work …

Fish benefit energetically when swimming in groups, which is reflected in lower tail-beat
frequencies for maintaining a given speed. Recent studies further show that fish save the …

Fish schooling with stable configurations is intriguing. How individuals benefit from
hydrodynamic interactions is still an open question. Here, fish are modeled as undulatory …

Oscillating foils in synchronized pitch/heave motions can be used to harvest hydrokinetic
energy. By understanding the wake structure and its correlation with the foil kinematics …

The mechanism behind stable aggregations of active swimmers is not fully understood. In
particular, the in-depth quantitative explanations are notably lacking. To address this, a …