Schedule Aug 7, 2018
The Tao of Fish Swimming
Jimmy Liao, University of Florida & KITP

The ability of animals to sense and navigate complex environments is unrivaled by even the most sophisticated robots. Nowhere is this more challenging to understand than in the three-dimensional environment of water, where animals are unconstrained by gravity with appendages and bodies at the mercy of the complex fluid-structure interactions of turbulent flow. Fishes, which comprise over half of all living vertebrates, have an exquisite control mechanism for negotiating turbulence. I will describe advances my lab has made in understanding how fish swim in unsteady flows, and how by studying nature’s designs we can reveal insights into some of the biggest challenges in engineering and robotics.


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