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On numerical modeling of animal swimming and flight

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Aquatic and aerial animals have developed their superior and complete mechanisms of swimming and flight. These mechanisms bring excellent locomotion performances to natural creatures, including high efficiency, long endurance ability, high maneuverability and low noise, and can potentially provide inspiration for the design of the man-made vehicles. As an efficient research approach, numerical modeling becomes more and more important in studying the mechanisms of swimming and flight. This review is focused on assessing the recent progress in numerical techniques of solving animal swimming and flight problems. According to the complexity of the problems considered, numerical studies are classified into five stages, of which the main characteristics and the numerical strategies are described and discussed. In addition, the body-conformal mesh, Cartesian-mesh, overset-grid, and meshfree methods are briefly introduced. Finally, several open issues in numerical modeling in this field are highlighted.

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This work was supported by the National Basic Scientific Research Program of China (No. B2220132013), the Fund for Basic Research of the Beijing Institute of Technology (No. 3160012211 305), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31200704).

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    Hong-Bin Deng

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    Yuan-Qing Xu & Duan-Duan Chen

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2301 Vanderbilt Pl., Nashville, TN, 37235-1592, USA

    Hu Dai & Fang-Bao Tian

  4. Département Fluide-Thermique-Combustion, Institut PPRIME, Boulevard Pierre et Marie Curie, BP 30179, Futuroscope-Chasseneuil, 86962, France

    Jian Wu

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Deng, HB., Xu, YQ., Chen, DD. et al. On numerical modeling of animal swimming and flight. Comput Mech 52, 1221–1242 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-013-0875-2

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