Function of the Caudal Fin During Locomotion in Fishes: Kinematics, Flow Visualization, and Evolutionary Patterns1

By George V. Lauder. 2000

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. George V. Lauder
2. Alexander J Smits
3. Peter G. Madden
4. Eric D. Tytell
5. A. Maia
6. Michael S. Triantafyllou
7. P. Webb
8. Frank E. Fish

In Ecology

1. A. Maia
2. Eric D. Tytell
3. George V. Lauder
4. Christopher J. Fulton
5. Alexander J Smits
6. P. Webb
7. Michael S. Triantafyllou
8. Franz S. Hover

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Alexander J Smits
2. George V. Lauder
3. Eric D. Tytell
4. Peter G. Madden
5. A. Maia
6. P. Webb
7. Christopher J. Fulton
8. Frank E. Fish

Citations in the corpus

• Maneuverability - general issues (2004, background): “Symmetrical body and fin kinematics characterize powered translational maneuvers, while asymmetrical effector-use drives powered rotational maneuvers (see [30], [31], [34], [35], [37], [39], and [40]–[53]).”
• Fish locomotion: kinematics and hydrodynamics of flexible foil-like fins (2007, background): “This has allowed time-resolved PIV (typically at 200‐1,000 Hz) recordings of fin and body wake flows with a temporal resolution 10‐50 times that of the fin beat frequency, giving a detailed picture of vorticity production and the generation of biological flows near the body and fins (Drucker and Lau”
• Undulatory and oscillatory swimming (2019, background): “The shape of the caudal fin clearly affects the fish flow kinematics, swimming efficiency, acceleration and manoeuvrability (Sambilay Jr 1990; Lauder 2000; Sumich & Morrissey 2004).”
• Review of experimental work in biomimetic foils (2004, background): “Recent work [20], [21], [ 69 ] shows the formation of ring-like vortical structures by fish fins.”
• Do trout swim better than eels? Challenges for estimating performance based on the wake of self-propelled bodies (2007, background): “In bluegill, the upper and lower lobes of the caudal fin move faster and over a larger amplitude that the center of the fin ( Lauder 2000; Tytell 2006), resulting in higher fluid velocities (Fig. 6) and likely more thrust than the center of the fin.”
• Hydrodynamics of Undulatory Propulsion (2005, background): “Many fishes swim with a positive angle of attack to the body (He and Wardle, 1986; Webb, 1993a; Wilga and Lauder, 1999; Liao and Lauder, 2000; Wilga and Lauder, 2000; Nauen and Lauder, 2002a; Svendsen et al., 2005).”
• Passive and Active Flow Control by Swimming Fishes and Mammals (2006, background): “…separation of the tail in most fishes via the considerable narrowing of the body at the region just in front of the tail (Figure 7a) suggests that most fish tails function as a distinct propeller, largely independent from the major drag-incurring body region anteriorly (Nauen & Lauder 2000, 2001b).”
• Biomechanics of Locomotion in Sharks, Rays, and Chimeras (2012, methodology): “As a result of experimental data demonstrating that shark pectoral fins do not generate lift during steady horizontal locomotion (Wilga and Lauder, 2000, 2001) as a result of their orientation relative to the flow, no role in generating either lift or torque is attributed to the pectoral fins…”
• Swimming speed performance in coral reef fishes: field validations reveal distinct functional groups (2007, background): “…from flexible body and caudal fin undulation, whereas taxa using the labriform mode may use oscillatory fin kinematics to exploit either drag- or lift-based forces through variations in the pattern of pectoral fin movement (Webb 1988; Walker and Westneat 2000; Blake 2004; but see Lauder 2000).”