Animal Locomotion
The physical principles of swimming and flying in animals are intriguingly different from those of ships and airplanes. The study of animal locomotion therefore holds a special place not only at the frontiers of pure fluid dynamics research, but also in the applied field of biomimetics, which aims t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2010, 2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Swimming by microscopic organisms in ambient water flow
- Water-walking devices
- Flapping flexible fish
- Vortex dynamics in the wake of a mechanical fish
- Investigation of flow mechanism of a robotic fish swimming by using flow visualization synchronized with hydrodynamic force measurement
- The Physics of Flying
- PIV-based investigations of animal flight
- Wing–wake interaction reduces power consumption in insect tandem wings
- Experimental investigation of some aspects of insect-like flapping flight aerodynamics for application to micro air vehicles
- Design and development considerations for biologically inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles
- Smoke visualization of free-flying bumblebees indicates independent leading-edge vortices on each wing pair
- The influence of airfoil kinematics on the formation of leading-edge vortices inbio-inspired flight
- Wake patterns of the wings and tail of hovering hummingbirds
- The Hydrodynamics of Swimming
- Swimming hydrodynamics: ten questions and the technical approaches needed to resolve them
- A potential-flow, deformable-body model for fluid-structure interactions with compact vorticity: application to animal swimming measurements
- Wake visualization of a heaving and pitching foil in a soap film
- A harmonic model of hydrodynamic forces produced by a flapping fin
- Flowfield measurements in the wake of a robotic lamprey
- Impulse generated during unsteady maneuvering of swimming fish
- Do trout swim better than eels? Challenges for estimating performance based on the wake of self-propelled bodies
- Time resolved measurements of the flow generated by suction feeding fish
- Powered control mechanisms contributing to dynamically stable swimming in porcupine puffers (Teleostei: Diodon holocanthus)
- Fluid dynamics of self-propelled microorganisms, from individuals to concentrated populations
- Characterization of vortical structures and loads based on time-resolved PIV for asymmetric hovering flapping flight
- Unsteady fluid-structure interactions of membrane airfoils at low Reynolds numbers
- Aerodynamic and functional consequences of wing compliance
- Shallow and deep dynamic stall for flapping low Reynolds number airfoils
- High-fidelity simulations of moving and flexible airfoils at low Reynolds numbers
- High-speed stereo DPIV measurement of wakes of two bat species flying freely in a wind tunnel
- Time-resolved wake structure and kinematics of bat flight
- Experimental investigation of a flapping wing model
- Aerodynamics of intermittent bounds in flying birds
- Experimental analysis of the flow field over a novel owl based airfoil
- The aerodynamic forces and pressure distribution of a revolving pigeon wing