... of these interactions and how they give rise to fish swimming was carried out more than 20 years ago. In this Review, we summarize work on passive and active body mechanics in fish, physical models of fish and bioinspired robots. We also revisit some of the first studies to explore flexural stiffness and discuss...

... decreased with BL, with a sharper decline in thrips. We next measured aerodynamic forces and visualized flow on physical models of bristled wings performing clap-and-fling kinematics at a chord-based Reynolds number of 10 using a dynamically scaled robotic platform. We examined the effects of dimensional...