...://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 IOS 1652582 Anguilliform swimming Body waveform Fluid dynamic forces Proprioception Summary: Swimming lampreys largely compensate for changes in viscosity, maintaining similar kinematics over 20× changes in viscosity, suggesting that they use sensory...

...Megan C. Leftwich; Eric D. Tytell; Avis H. Cohen; Alexander J. Smits SUMMARY A robotic lamprey, based on the silver lamprey, Ichthyomyzon unicuspis , was used to investigate the influence of passive tail flexibility on the wake structure and thrust production during anguilliform swimming...

... of the caudal end are passive during swimming. These predictions await verification or rejection through further experiments on swimming animals. * Author for correspondence ( tiwasaki@ucla.edu ) 6 10 2011 © 2012. 2012 anguilliform swimming control mechanism leech energy cost...

...Stefan Kern; Petros Koumoutsakos SUMMARY The hydrodynamics of anguilliform swimming motions was investigated using three-dimensional simulations of the fluid flow past a self-propelled body. The motion of the body is not specified a priori , but is instead obtained through an evolutionary algorithm...

... fin oscillations or undulations. * e-mail: kdaout@uia.ua.ac.be 03 03 1999 06 05 1999 © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 Anguilla anguilla European eel kinematics anguilliform swimming backward swimming Most fish have a forward undulatory swimming...

...John Carling; Thelma L. Williams; Graham Bowtell ABSTRACT Anguilliform swimming has been investigated by using a computational model combining the dynamics of both the creature’s movement and the two-dimensional fluid flow of the surrounding water. The model creature is self-propelled; it follows...

... similar to those of anguilliform swimming fish than to those of tadpoles, in spite of common morphological features with the latter, such as limbs, external gills and a tapering tail. The swimming speed for a given animal size correlates linearly with the tailbeat frequency ( r 2 =0.71), whereas...

...Jeffrey B. Graham; William R. Lowell; Ira Rubinoff; Jorge Motta ABSTRACT During anguilliform swimming at the surface, four half waves are present along the body of the yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus (Hydrophiidae). As in other anguilliform swimmers, wave amplitude increases towards...