Swimming in an inviscid fluid
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We present a set of equations governing the motion of a body due to prescribed shape changes in an inviscid, planar fluid with nonzero vorticity. The derived equations, when neglecting vorticity, reduce to the model developed in [4] for swimming in potential flow, and are also consistent with the models developed in [2,5,15] for a rigid body interacting dynamically with point vortices. The effects of cyclic shape changes and the presence of vorticity on the locomotion of a submerged body are discussed through examples.
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