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Towards a terramechanics for bio-inspired locomotion in granular environments
Chen Li, Yang Ding, Nick Gravish +6
Granular media (GM) present locomotor challenges for terrestrial and extraterrestrial devices because they can flow and solidify in response to localized intrusion of wheels, limbs…
How fish power swimming: a 3D computational fluid dynamics study
Tingyu Ming, Bowen Jin, Jialei Song +3
In undulatory swimming of fish, muscles contract sequentially along the body to generate a bending wave that pushes against the water and produces thrust. Here, we use a 3D computa…
Transition and formation of the torque pattern of undulatory locomotion in resistive force dominated media
Tingyu Ming, Yang Ding
In undulatory locomotion, torques along the body are required to overcome external forces from the environment and bend the body. Using a resistive force theory model, we find that…
Propulsion via flexible flapping in granular media
Zhiwei Peng, Yang Ding, Kyle Pietrzyk +2
Biological locomotion in nature is often achieved by the interaction between a flexible body and its surrounding medium. The interaction of a flexible body with granular media is l…
Lift and drag in intruders moving through hydrostatic granular media at high speeds
Fabricio Q. Potiguar, Yang Ding
Recently, experiments showed that forces on intruders dragged horizontally through dense, hydrostatic granular packings mainly depend on the local surface orientation and can be se…
Emergence of the advancing neuromechanical phase in a resistive force dominated medium
Yang Ding, Sarah S. Sharpe, Kurt Wiesenfeld +1
Undulatory locomotion, a gait in which thrust is produced in the opposite direction of a traveling wave of body bending, is a common mode of propulsion used by animals in fluids, o…