The fluid dynamics of flap** foils are reviewed in this article. A very wide range of
researches are conducted for the two-dimensional flap** foil which has a relatively simple …

Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to revolutionize our sensing and information
gathering capabilities in areas such as environmental monitoring and homeland security …

To evaluate the swimming performances of aquatic animals, an important dimensionless
quantity is the Strouhal number, St= fA/U, with f the tail-beat frequency, A the peak-to-peak …

The effect of varying airfoil thickness and camber on plunging and combined pitching and
plunging airfoil propulsion at Reynolds number Re= 200, 2000, 20000 and 2× 106 was …

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

This paper presents a biomimetic turtle flipper actuator consisting of a shape memory alloy
composite structure for implementation in a turtle-inspired autonomous underwater vehicle …

We study numerically the propulsive wakes produced by a flap** foil. Both pure pitching
and pure heaving motions are considered, respectively, at a fixed Reynolds number of Re …

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

This paper presents a parametric study on a forced pitching hydrofoil. The non-dimensional
frequency (Strouhal number, St d) and amplitude ratio (A∗) of the hydrofoil pitching are …

The immersed boundary and large eddy simulation methods are combined to study the
propulsion and energy harvesting performances of a wave glider based on a flap** foil …