Abstract

A swimming fish leaves behind an orderly pattern of vortices, but schools of fish are not ordered into lattice arrangements. Our experiments on robotic hydrofoils show how flapping swimmers can benefit from hydrodynamic interactions and stay in a school even without specific positioning relative to neighbors.

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