How The Kinematic Swimming Of European Eel Anguilla Anguilla Changes From Axial To Non-Axial Velocity Flow

• Main Authors: Matar, Younes, Candelier, Fabien, Solliec, Camille
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Undulatory swimming; maneuver; eel Anguilla Anguilla; biomechanic.; Munk; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1060684; https://zenodo.org/record/1060684

The aim of this study is to investigate the kinematics of undulatory elongated fish swimming against a velocity flow. We perform the experiments on European eel Anguilla Anguilla swimming in a hydrodynamic re-circulating tank with the velocity flow fixed at 0.2 m/s. We find that the undulating shape of overall eel body changes when it swims slantwise from the flow direction, by comparison to axial undulation shape. We examine this kinematics and we propose a general equation describing the lateral position of undulation body taking into account the direction of the eel-s swimming. : {"references": ["M. Sfakiotakis and DM Lane and JBC Davies, \"Review of fish swimming\nmodes for aquatic locomotion,\" IEEE J OCEANIC ENG, vol. 2, no. 2,\npp. 237-252, Apr. 1999.", "GB Gillis, \"Undulatory locomotion in elongate aquatic vertebrates: Anguilliform\nswimming since Sir James Gray,\" American Zoologist, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 656-665, Dec. 1996.", "J. GRAY, \"Studies in Animal Locomotion,\" Journal of Experimental\nBiology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 88-104, Jan. 1933.", "GB. Gillis, \"Environmental effects on undulatory locomotion in the\nAmerican eel Anguilla rostrata: Kinematics in water and on land,\" Journal\nof Experimental Biology, vol. 201, no. 7, pp. 949-961, Apr. 1998.", "K. D-Aout and P. Aerts, \"A kinematic comparison of forward and backward\nswimming in the eel Anguilla anguilla,\" Journal of Experimental\nBiology, vol. 202, no. 11, pp. 656-665, Jun. 1999.", "U. K. Muller and J. Smit and E. J. Stamhuis and J. J. Videler, \"How the\nbody contributes to the wake in undulatory fish swimming: Flow fields of\na swimming eel (Anguilla anguilla),\" Journal of Experimental Biology,\nvol. 204, no. 16, pp. 2751-2762, Aug. 2001.", "E. D. Tytell, \"The hydrodynamics of eel swimming II. Effect of swimming speed,\" Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 207, no. 19, pp. 3265-3279,\nSep. 2004.", "J. GRAY, \"Kinematics and hydrodynamics of linear acceleration in eels,\nAnguilla rostrata,\" Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series\nB-Biological Sciences, vol. 271, no. 1557, pp. 2535-2540, Dec. 2004.", "Y. Munk, \"Kinematics of swimming garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis),\"\nComparative Biochemistry, Physiology A-Molecular And Integrative Physiology, vol. 150, no. 2, pp. 131-135, Jun. 2008.\n[10] A. Herrel, Hon-Fai Choi, N. De Schepper, P. Aerts and D. Adriaens,\n\"Kinematics of swimming in two burrowing anguilliform fishes,\" Zoology,\nvol. 114, no. 2, pp. 78-84, Apr. 2011.\n[11] P. Domenici and R. Blake, \"The kinematics and performance of fish\nfast-start swimming,\" ournal of Experimental Biology, vol. 200, no. 8, pp. 1165-1178, Apr. 1997."]}