Abstract
Inspired by the advanced capabilities of fish-like swimmers, we seek a greater understanding of the hydrodynamic mechanisms they employ. Borrowing tools from geometric mechanics, we develop a large-amplitude gait design technique for self-propelling deformable swimmers in potential flow and Stokes flow. Additionally, a heuristically-developed control algorithm is implemented to nearly optimize thrust-generation for a swimmer moving through its own nearly-periodic vortex wake.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1355-1360 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc. |
| Volume | 67 |
| State | Published - 2010 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering