CFD study of aquatic thrust generation by an octopus-like arm under intense prescribed deformations

DOI10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.03.009zbMath1390.76953OpenAlexW2314043639MaRDI QIDQ1645741

Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dionysios Angelidis, John A. Ekaterinaris, Dimitris P. Tsakiris, Asimina Kazakidi

Publication date: 22 June 2018

Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/60921/

zbMATH Keywords

large deformationsimmersed boundary methodcomputational fluid dynamics (CFD)aquatic locomotionbiological propulsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanics (92C10) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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