Bio-Inspired Propulsion and Fluid Mechanics
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2025 | Viewed by 709
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Interests: fluid mechanics; biofluids; soft matter
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Dear Colleagues,
Bionic air/underwater vehicles are often designed with natural flying/swimming organisms in mind, and biomimicry has emerged as an innovative approach to designing efficient machines for a number of engineering applications. In nature, fish perform rapid propulsion by oscillating their fins, and birds and insects achieve skillful flight maneuvers by flapping their wings. This is closely related to the interaction between their wings/fins and the surrounding fluids; therefore, the design of bionic vehicles requires a thorough understanding of these bio-inspired fluid flows. In the last two decades, although the flow physics underlying biopropulsion has been extensively studied, significant opportunities for further exploration remain, such as wing/fin deformation, biological self-propulsive motions, fluid–structure interactions, and wing/fin–wake interactions. Understanding these flow mechanisms is essential in designing enhanced high-performance bionic propulsion vehicles. These vehicles should be lightweight, high-performance, and adaptable to various environments. In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence has provided solutions in relation to the optimal design and control design of bionic vehicles. Therefore, it is vital that we expand these innovative areas of research and propose novel methods and useful design tools.
This Special Issue aims to explore the flow physics of bionic propulsion and the design and optimization of bionic vehicles. We believe that this initiative will provide important insights into bionic propulsion and inspire contributions from leading experts in the field.
Dr. Alexander Alexeev
Dr. Xue Guang Meng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flying/swimming
- unsteady aerodynamics/hydrodynamics
- numerical simulation/experimental techniques for bionic flows
- self-propelled motion
- vortex dynamics
- bionic vehicle design and optimization
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