Nature-Inspired Inventions · Volume 016
Fish
Streamlined Boats and Underwater Vehicle Forms
Water is about 800 times denser than air and far more viscous. Anything that moves through it pays heavily for a poor shape. Over hundreds of millions of years, fish that needed speed and endurance evolved bodies that slip through water with remarkably little resistance: rounded noses, smoothly swelling bodies, tapering tails, and surfaces that keep the flow orderly.
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- PDF ebook
- Length
- 29 pages
- Edition
- First Edition
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Inside this volume
- Introduction: Shaped by Water
- Fish Body Forms
- Fish Surfaces
- Resistance in Water
- History of Streamlined Vessels and Underwater Vehicles
- Translating Fish Forms Into Engineering
- Construction and Surfaces
- Operation and Efficiency
- Ten Fish-Form-Inspired Design Concepts
- Testing Underwater Forms
- Failure Modes and Limitations
- Approval, Intellectual Property and Market
- Design Workbook
- Case Study — Doubling an AUV's Range
Plus appendices of formulas and rules of thumb, common reader questions, a glossary and further reading.
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