Mechanics of Undulatory Swimming in a Frictional Fluid
Figure 12
The total power generated by the actuators as a function of undulation frequency.
Black circles represent uniform body and blue triangles represent tapered body. Dashed lines indicate a linear relationship between power and frequency. Fits are constrained to go through the origin and have slopes of 0.39 J (uniform) and 0.32 J (tapered). Averaging was done over an integer number of cycles and approximately 1 s of time. Error bars indicate the standard deviations of the fluctuations. .