Intermittent locomotion of a fish-like swimmer driven by passive elastic mechanism

• Published in: Bioinspiration & biomimetics Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 56011 - 56023
• Main Authors: Dai, Longzhen, He, Guowei, Zhang, Xiang, Zhang, Xing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 31.07.2018
• Subjects: Animals; Biomechanical Phenomena - physiology; Biomimetics - methods; Elastic Modulus - physiology; elastic swimmer; energy efficiency; Fishes - physiology; fluid-structure interaction; intermittent swimming; Locomotion - physiology; Models, Biological; numerical simulation; Swimming - physiology

The intermittent locomotion performance of a fish-like elastic swimmer is studied numerically in this paper. The actuation is imposed only at the head and the locomotion is indirectly driven by passive elastic mechanism. For intermittent swimming, certain time durations of passive coasting are inter...