Friday, February 4, 2011

Robotic Ghost Knifefish


The Incredible Robot Fish from Northwestern News on Vimeo.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-robotic-ghost-knifefish-born-video.html 

"The team then created a computer simulation that showed that when these “inward counterpropagating waves” are generated by the fin, horizontal thrust is canceled and the fluid motion generated by the two waves is funneled into a downward jet from the center of the fin, pushing the body up. The flow structure looks like a mushroom cloud with an inverted jet."

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