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🌊 Buoyancy Glider Sawtooth Dive: Lift, Drag and Battery (2D section)

Side section of an autonomous underwater glider: an oil bladder changes buoyancy, fixed wings turn the vertical motion into forward glide, and the path is a sawtooth between two turn depths. Same RK4 solver as the 3D page, with force-balance, energy-ledger and Archimedes checks.

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Buoyancy Glider Sawtooth Dive: Lift, Drag and Battery (2D section) ↗ Open standalone
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Side section of an autonomous underwater glider: an oil bladder changes buoyancy, fixed wings turn the vertical motion into forward glide, and the path is a sawtooth between two turn depths. Same RK4 solver as the 3D page, with force-balance, energy-ledger and Archimedes checks.

underwater glidervariable buoyancylift and dragsawtooth profilebattery budget

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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