The self-propulsion of a deformable body in a perfect fluid
- 12 April 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 28 (02), 385-389
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112067002149
Abstract
It is shown that a deformable body can move persistently from rest through a perfect fluid without having to produce vorticity in the fluid.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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