title: [Dolphin's flukes: A mathematical model of rigid wing].
abstract: New analytical method is used to estimate hydrodynamic forces produced by dolphin's flukes. A mathematical model is proposed that describes dolphin's flukes as a flat rigid rectangular wing whose pitch axis location varies, heaving and pitching amplitudes are sufficiently large, and the phase angle shift for the combined oscillations can change arbitrarily. The dolphin's flukes kinematic parameters are obtained and used to estimate hydrodynamic forces.
authors: E V
authors: EV
authors: Romanenko
authors: S G
authors: SG
authors: Pushkov
authors: V N
authors: VN
authors: Lopatin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004289:Dolphins / Q000502:physiology*; D057446:Hydrodynamics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014200:Trematoda / Q000502:physiology*