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🐍 Sea Snake Swimming: Lateral Undulation, Resistive Force Theory and the Best Wavelength

How does a sea snake swim? A travelling body wave pushes on the water; resistive force theory with normal and tangential drag gives thrust, steady speed, efficiency and the wavelength that swims fastest, checked against Gray-Hancock and a time-domain simulation.

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How does a sea snake swim? A travelling body wave pushes on the water; resistive force theory with normal and tangential drag gives thrust, steady speed, efficiency and the wavelength that swims fastest, checked against Gray-Hancock and a time-domain simulation.

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