Bio-mechanisms of Swimming and Flying

Preface Acknowledgments Part 1 Biological Aspects of Locomotive Mechanisms and Behaviors of Animals While Swimming and Flying Chapter1: Asymmetric Swimming Motion of Singly Flagellated Bacteria near a Rigid Surface Chapter2: Properties of a Semi-dilute Suspension of Swimming Microorganisms Chapter3: Dynamics, Modeling and Real-time Observation of Galvanotaxis in Paramecium caudatum Chapter4: Object Manipulation by a Formation-Controlled Euglena Group Chapter5: Passive Mechanisms Controlling Posture and Trajectory in Swimming Fishes Chapter6: Mechanical Properties of the Caudal Fin Resulting from the Caudal Skeletal Structure of the Bluefin Tuna Chapter7: Design of Artificial Tail Flukes for a Bottlenose Dolphin Chapter8: Changes in Drag Acting on an Angled Wavy Silicon-rubber Plate as a Model of the Skin Folds of a Swimming Dolphin Chapter9: Central Nervous System Underlying Swimming Fish Chapter10: Underwater Acoustical Sensing Behavior of Porpoises Chapter11: Microstructural Approach to Developing the Resonance Model of the Indirect Flight Mechanism Part 2 Hydrodynamics of Swimming and Flying Chapter12: Studies of Hydrodynamics in Fishlike Swimming Propulsion Chapter13: Optimization of Fish Shape and Swim Mode in Fully Resolved 2-D Flow-field by Genetic Algorithm with the Least-square Prediction Method Chapter14: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Anguilliform Swimmers Chapter15: A Numerical Study of Hovering Aerodynamics in Flapping Insect Flight Chapter16: Stabilization of Flapping-of-Wings Flight of a Butterfly, Considering Wakes Chapter 17: 3-D Unsteady Computations of Flapping Flight in Insects, Fish, and Unmanned Vehicles Part 3 Biomimetic Swimming or Flying Robots Chapter 18: Design and Simulations of a Virtual Fishlike Robot Actuated by a Muscle Model Chapter 19: Development of Fish Robots Powered by Fuel Cells: Improvement of Swimming Ability by a Genetic Algorithm and Flow Analysis by Computational Fluid Dynamics Chapter 20: Design and Control of

Biomechanics studies of animals in swimming and flying can serve an increasing role in understanding the mechanisms that enable animals to move effectively and efficiently in fluid, as well as analyzing the characteristics of their various forms of behavior in fluid. This book covers a wide range of animals from flagellated microorganisms to marine mammals. It follows "Bio-mechanisms of Animals in Swimming and Flying" published in 2004 including 11 chapters. This time, the book includes 31 chapters on the latest researches into natural autonomous systems and locomotion in both flying and swimming organisms. The area of sports science such as analysis and simulation of human swimming is newly added. The computational frameworks for the modeling, simulation and optimization of animals in swimming and flying demonstrate an important role in the progress of interdisciplinary work in the fields of biology and engineering.