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The hydrodynamic analysis of fish propulsion performance and its morphological adaptation

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The hydrodynamic performance of fish undulatory swimming has been studied by means of the linear three-dimensional and the non-linear two-dimensional waving-plate theories developed recently by the present authors. The morphological adaptation of the anguilliform mode, carangiform mode, and lunate-tail swimming propulsion in the biological evolution process of fishes has been understood tentatively from the point of view of hydrodynamic analysis.

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  1. Bing-Gang Tong

    Present address: Graduate School of USTC, P.O. Box 3908, 100039, Beijing, China

  2. Jian-Yu Cheng

    Present address: FB 13.4-Zoologie, Bau. 6, Universität des Saarlandes, D-6600, Saarbrücken, Germany

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  1. Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

    Bing-Gang Tong, Li-Xian Zhuang & Jian-Yu Cheng

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This research work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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Tong, BG., Zhuang, LX. & Cheng, JY. The hydrodynamic analysis of fish propulsion performance and its morphological adaptation. Sadhana 18, 719–728 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02744375

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