Fish in schooling formations navigate complex flow fields replete with mechanical energy in
the vortex wakes of their companions. Their schooling behavior has been associated with …

Schooling, an archetype of collective behaviour, emerges from the interactions of fish
responding to sensory information mediated by their aqueous environment. A fundamental …

Schooling in fish is linked to a number of factors such as increased foraging success,
predator avoidance, and social interactions. In addition, a prevailing hypothesis is that …

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 …

Efficient point-to-point navigation in the presence of a background flow field is important for
robotic applications such as ocean surveying. In such applications, robots may only have …

Fish schooling is a remarkable biological behavior that is thought to provide hydrodynamic
advantages. Theoretical models have predicted significant reduction in swimming cost due …

Fish schools and bird flocks are fascinating examples of collective behaviours in which
many individuals generate and interact with complex flows. Motivated by animal groups on …

Swimming microorganisms switch between locomotory gaits to enable complex navigation
strategies such as run-and-tumble to explore their environments and search for specific …

The coordinated motion by multiple swimmers is a fundamental component in fish schooling.
The flow field induced by the motion of each self-propelled swimmer implies non-linear …

A potential benefit of swimming together in coordinated schools is to allow fish to extract
energy from vortices shed by their neighbours, thus reducing the costs of locomotion. This …