Essays about: "Lie bracket motion"

Found 1 essay containing the words Lie bracket motion.

  1. 1. Underwater Locomotion of Swimming Cylinders

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för reglerteknik

    Author : Helena Andreas; [1997]
    Keywords : Underwater locomotion; Irrotational fluif; Deformation; Lie bracket motion; Optimal control; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The object of this thesis is to explore of a planar, almost circular amoeba, can move efficiently in an inviscid fluid. We investigate a homogenous amoeba and a heterogeneous amoeba and find that motion is possible for both using the physical fact that more work is needed when moving a bulky body in a fluid than when moving a small body of the same mass. READ MORE