Swimming fish simulation, Reynolds 1100

A visualisation of a simulation I did for my PhD project. It's a two-dimensional swimming fish. The fluid is simulated using the multiparticle collision dynamics method (http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2157?context=cond-mat.stat-mech). There's about 40 million particles bouncing around in this simulation.

The colours indicate the local vorticity. Red means the fluid is rotating counterclockwise, blue clockwise.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hydrodynamics
• fish
• simulations

[luczkovichj]

I have shown this to my BIOL 5550 Ichthyology class at East Carolina University when discussing fish locomotion. Thanks!

[osmosisch]

@luczkovichj I'm glad you found it useful! Please let me know if you want better quality files, this is a really old one.

[jtuhtan]

Do you have a link to a .pdf of your Dissertation? How about the software used in the simulation?