Dynamic dorsal body morphology encodes engineering design principles of fish propulsion and hydrodynamics
Yunpeng Zhu, Lidong Zhu, Lianyuan Cheng, Liangliang Cheng, Xingwen Zheng, Duncan J. Irschick, Johnson Martin, Nathan Kutz
The paper introduces a data-driven framework to connect fish body shape dynamics to hydrodynamic performance using CFD simulations and reduced-order modeling.
bioRxiv · May 8, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics