Smoothed particle hydrodynamics and its diverse applications

JJ Monaghan - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on the applications of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to
incompressible or nearly incompressible flow. In the past 17 years, the range of applications …

A review on modelling, implementation, and control of snake robots

P Liljebäck, KY Pettersen, Ø Stavdahl… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of previous literature on snake robot locomotion. In
particular, the paper considers previous research efforts related to modelling of snake …

[BOOK][B] Snake robots: modelling, mechatronics, and control

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots:
robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in …

Geometric methods for modeling and control of free-swimming fin-actuated underwater vehicles

KA Morgansen, BI Triplett… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, techniques from geometric mechanics and geometric nonlinear control theory
are applied to modeling and construction of trajectory tracking algorithms for a free …

[BOOK][B] Hamiltonian reduction by stages

JE Marsden, G Misiolek, JP Ortega, M Perlmutter… - 2007 - books.google.com
In this volume readers will find for the first time a detailed account of the theory of symplectic
reduction by stages, along with numerous illustrations of the theory. Special emphasis is …

[BOOK][B] Mathematical modeling of unsteady inviscid flows

JD Eldredge - 2019 - Springer
In this modern era of ready access to computational resources, both for research and for
instruction, potential flow theory has become somewhat of an endangered species. Though …

Learning to swim in potential flow

Y Jiao, F Ling, S Heydari, N Heess, J Merel, E Kanso - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Fish swim by undulating their bodies. These propulsive motions require coordinated shape
changes of a body that interacts with its fluid environment, but the specific shape …

Optimal strokes for low Reynolds number swimmers: an example

F Alouges, A DeSimone, A Lefebvre - Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2008 - Springer
Swimming, ie, being able to advance in the absence of external forces by performing cyclic
shape changes, is particularly demanding at low Reynolds numbers. This is the regime of …

Numerical simulation of the fluid dynamics of 2D rigid body motion with the vortex particle method

JD Eldredge - Journal of Computational Physics, 2007 - Elsevier
A viscous vortex particle method is presented for computing the fluid dynamics of two-
dimensional rigid bodies in motion. The Navier–Stokes equations are solved using a …

Hamilton–Pontryagin integrators on Lie groups part I: Introduction and structure-preserving properties

N Bou-Rabee, JE Marsden - Foundations of computational mathematics, 2009 - Springer
In this paper, structure-preserving time-integrators for rigid body-type mechanical systems
are derived from a discrete Hamilton–Pontryagin variational principle. From this principle …