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Hopscotching jellyfish: combining different duty cycle kinematics can lead to enhanced swimming performance
(IOP Publishing, 2021-10-26)
Jellyfish (Medusozoa) have been deemed the most energy-efficient animals in the world. Their bell morphology and relatively simple nervous systems make them attractive to robotocists. Although, the science community has ...
Fluid-structure interaction for the classroom: interpolation, hearts, and swimming!
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2021)
While students may find spline interpolation quite digestible, based on their familiarity with continuity of a function and its derivatives, some of its inherent value may be missed when students only see it applied to ...