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 …

Aquatic and aerial animals have developed their superior and complete mechanisms of
swimming and flight. These mechanisms bring excellent locomotion performances to natural …

Experimental gradient-based optimization is used to maximize the propulsive efficiency of a
heaving and pitching flexible panel. Optimum and near-optimum conditions are studied via …

We use modeling and simulations guided by initial experiments to study thin foils which are
oscillated at the leading edge and are free to move unidirectionally under the resulting fluid …

Flexibility of marine animal fins has been thought to enhance swimming performance.
However, despite numerous experimental and numerical studies on flap** flexible foils …

The effects of the Reynolds number (Re) and thickness on an undulatory self-propelled foil
were numerically investigated using the immersed boundary method. Re varied from 50 to …

Most aquatic vertebrates swim by passing a bending wave down their bodies, a swimming
mode known as undulatory propulsion. Except for very elongated swimmers like eels and …

Undulatory swimming animals exhibit diverse ranges of body shapes and motion patterns
and are often considered as having superior locomotory performance. The extent to which …

This paper explores cantilevered beam flutter for both clamped and pinned leading edge
boundary conditions. Specifically, a three-dimensional vortex lattice panel method is …

Micro-power generators are increasingly becoming popular to meet the power requirements
of micro-electromechanical systems, such as small sensors. One such resource of …