Fishes have learned how to achieve outstanding swimming performance through the
evolution of hundreds of millions of years, which can provide bio-inspiration for robotic fish …

Theory and modelling remain central to improving our understanding of undulatory and
oscillatory swimming. Simple models based on added mass can help to give great insight …

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 …

The effects of chordwise deformation and the half-amplitude asymmetry on the
hydrodynamic performance and vortex dynamics of batoid fish have been numerically …

The propulsive performance of an unsteady heaving and pitching foil is considered, and an
extensive experimental parameter space of motion amplitudes, frequencies, and phase …

Wake evolution of an oscillating foil with combined heaving and pitching motion is evaluated
numerically for a range of phase offsets (pairs observed consistently for oscillating foils with …

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 …

Many animals that swim or fly use their body to accelerate the fluid around them, transferring
momentum from their flexible bodies and appendages to the surrounding fluid. The …

Fish use coordinated motions of multiple fins and their body to swim and maneuver
underwater with more agility than contemporary unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) …

Unsteady flow characteristics and propulsive performance during self-propulsion of various
types of fishes-like undulating 2D NACA0012 hydrofoil are studied using a unified kinematic …