Wrasse-inspired Agile Near-shore Deformable-fin Automaton (WANDA) (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

Wrasse-inspired Agile Near-shore Deformable-fin Automaton (WANDA) (1 of 2)

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Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, digitally modeled the geometry of the bird wrasse using computational fluid dynamics simulation then validated the data against experimental results.

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US Naval Research Laboratory

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