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Figure 4

From: An inertial mechanism behind dynamic station holding by fish swinging in a vortex street

Figure 4

Power expenditure by fish in different swimming modes divided by that in the absence of the vortex street: blue circles—regular swimming outside the wake, red triangles—altered gait in hydrofoil wake. Pairs corresponding to the same fish are joined by grey lines and shifted horizontally to improve clarity. A consistent reduction of the energy expenditure can be observed for all three fish at the foil frequencies of 1.4 Hz, 1.6 Hz and 2.0 Hz.

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