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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.154502
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- European Commission for Research [FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF-272335-REDWING]
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Elastic filamentous structures found on swimming and flying organisms are versatile in function, rendering their precise contribution to locomotion difficult to assess. We show in this Letter that a single passive filament hinged on the rear of a bluff body placed in a stream can generate a net lift force without increasing the mean drag force on the body. This is a consequence of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the filament's flapping dynamics. The phenomenon is related to a resonance between the frequency associated with the von Karman vortex street developing behind the bluff body and the natural frequency of the free bending vibrations of the filament.
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