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Role of body stiffness in undulatory swimming: Insights from robotic and computational models

Eric Tytell, Megan C. Leftwich, Chia-Yu Hsu, Boyce E. Griffith, Avis H. Cohen, Alexander J. Smits, Christina Hamlet, Lisa Fauci

Year
2016
Citations
84

Abstract

Experiments and computational lamprey models address the question: How does flexibility affect swimming performance? Can we tune the passive material properties of a swimming body to improve performance?

Keywords

Flexibility (engineering)LampreyComputational modelComputer scienceStiffnessAffect (linguistics)Computational simulationSimulationEngineeringGeology

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