CFD study of aquatic thrust generation by an octopus-like arm under intense prescribed deformations
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a Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH), 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece b St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0116, USA Department of Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, USA d Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics, FORTH, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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