Session F14a

BIOMIMETIC AND BIO-INSPIRED PROPULSION

Monday 10:20 - 12:00, ECCR 105

Session Chair:  Kamran Mohseni

10:20 J.M. McArthur,  G.R. Spedding, and M. Rosen, “Aerodynamic instabilities on small scale wings”

10:40 M. Gharib and M. Milano, “Artificial evolution of efficient flapping appendages by using a vortex formation parameter”

11:00 J.E. Marsden, “Lagrangian coherent structures and biolocomotion”

11:20 A. Song, X. Tian, S. Swartz, and K. Breuer, “Unique features of the kinematics and dynamics associated with the flight of bats”

11:40 R.J. Bomphrey, “Insect flight - visualization and measuring the flow”

Session F14b

BIOMIMETIC AND BIO-INSPIRED PROPULSION

Monday 1:00 - 2:40, ECCR 105

Session Chair:  Frank Fish

1:00 G.V. Lauder, P. Madden, R. Mittal, H. Dong, M. Bozkurttas, N. Davidson, J. Tangorra, and I. Hunter, “Pectoral fin function in fishes: Hydrodynamics and construction of a robotic fin thruster”

1:20 R. Mittal, H. Dong, M. Bozkurttas, F. Najjar, A. Loebbeck, and A. Vargas, “A versatile immersed boundary method for biological flows with application to fish pectoral-fin hydrodynamics”

1:40 J. Dabiri, “Progress toward the non-invasive determination of animal swimming and feeding dynamics”

2:00 K. Mohseni, “Bio-inspired vortex ring generators for underwater propulsion and  maneuvering”

2:20 D.N. Beal and P. Bandyopadhyay, “Performance and leading-edge separation of rigid flapping fin as maneuvering thruster”

Session F14c

BIOMIMETIC AND BIO-INSPIRED PROPULSION

Monday 3:20 - 4:40, ECCR 105

Session Chair:  Rajat Mittal

3:20 J. Lim and M.E. DeMont, “Fluid mechanics of paddle-assisted walking in Atlantic Canadian lobster”

3:40 J.D. Eldredge, “Numerical simulation of undulatory swimming at moderate Reynolds number”

4:00 F.E. Fish, “Dolphin flukes as passively self-adjusting flexible propulsors for high efficiency transport”

4:20 P.S. Krueger, “A method for measuring propulsion power and efficiency from a vehicle wake”