Fish Exploiting Vortices Decrease Muscle Activity

By James C. Liao, D. Beal, George V. Lauder, Michael S. Triantafyllou. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A review of fish swimming mechanics and behaviour in altered flows (2007, methodology): “For example, fin activity is probably responsible for the fact that fish can exploit vortices shed behind a cylinder despite large differences in body morphology, phylogenetic membership and ecological niche (Liao et al. 2003a).”
Hydrodynamics of Undulatory Propulsion (2005, methodology): “In addition, by using DPIV to record simultaneous flow and kinematic patterns during the Kármán gait, Liao et al. (2003a) showed that fishes weave in between oncoming vortices (Figure 11.17C and D).”
Coral reef fishes exploit flow refuges in high-flow habitats (2008, methodology): “…found that fishes often place themselves behind structures when exposed to high flows (Gerstner & Webb 1998, Webb 1998, Asaeda et al. 2005), which can significantly reduce physiological swimming demands and directly assist fishes in using high-flow habitats (Liao et al. 2003, Johansen et al. 2007).”
Passive propulsion in vortex wakes (2006, methodology): “This allows the experimenter to have direct control on the phase of vortex-shedding and measure the relative phase between the foil motion and the vortices accurately – this makes the D-cylinders very suitable for such experiments.”
A model of total swimming costs in turbulent flow for juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) (2005, background): “In contrast, Liao et al. (2003) demonstrated that adult rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) swimming behind an obstacle producing a regular vortex shedding use the energy of these vortices to maintain their position in turbulent flows while reducing their muscle activity.”
Flapping and Bending Bodies Interacting with Fluid Flows (2011, background): “Both the driven and intrinsic flapping of flexible structures are important to understanding the swimming of fish (Huber 2000, Liao et al. 2003, Muller 2003).”
Numerical Simulation of a Flapping Foil with Chordwise or Spanwise Flexibility (2007, background): “[9] demonstrated that a flexible body was able to extract energy from”
Flow interactions lead to orderly formations of flapping wings in forward flight (2016, background): “To our knowledge, long-range order has not been reported in studies of schools, though it has been shown that, when presented with unsteady flows, fish adopt new swimming motions and synchronize with oncoming vortices [43].”
Biomimetic survival hydrodynamics and flow sensing (2015, background): “…oscillations of a whisker when placed within an oncoming Kármán wake is a “slaloming” motion which has similarities with the motion of an energy extracting foil (Streitlien, Triantafyllou & Triantafyllou 1996; Beal et al. 2006) and a trout swimmming in the wake of a cylinder (Liao et al. 2003).”
The increased efficiency of fish swimming in a school (2013, background): “We may speculate that real ﬁsh may even exaggerate their lateral movements in a way synchronized to the shedding of vortices to capture their energy, thus performing a kind of ‘reverse von Karman gait’(Liao et al. 2003b).”