In this video, we cover the aerodynamics of how animals swim and fly. This includes the entire range of shapes and sizes of animals, from whales down to bacteria. We use physical intuition of the Navier-Stokes equations to decompose the forcing mechanisms into (1) added mass; (2) momentum injection; (3) drag-based; (4) lift-based; and (5) viscous-based strategies. We pay special attention to lift-based thrust due to it's widespread use in nature. In addition, we cover how the drag behavior of big fast animals are different from small, slow animals. Swimmers and flyers often do clever strategies for manipulating and interacting with the wake of itself and others through interesting flow features. We are constantly trying to be inspired by nature's designs and incorporate it into our own through a field called bioinspired design.
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16 окт 2024