Renewable fluid dynamic energy derived from aquatic animal locomotion
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Renewable fluid dynamic energy derived from aquatic animal locomotion.
Aquatic animals swimming in isolation and in groups are known to extract energy from the vortices in environmental flows, significantly reducing muscle activity required for locomotion. A model for the vortex dynamics associated with this phenomenon is developed, showing that the energy extraction mechanism can be described by simple criteria governing the kinematics of the vortices relative to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1748-3182,1748-3190
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/2/3/l01