Mathematics can help us understand complex, fascinating phenomena, such as the schooling of fish. In the new paper “Emergence of in-line swimming patterns in zebrafish pairs”, published in journal Flow, Professor Maurizio Porfiri, with our two PhD students Mert Karakaya and Raghu R. Sattanapalle, and in collaboration with Professor Sean D. Peterson from University of Waterloo, shed light upon the hydrodynamics underlying in-line swimming patterns in pairs of fish. The work highlights stable and unstable configurations of the swimming fish pair, which can help understand the complex schooling patterns that are observed in nature.
Read the entire paper here.
Image credit: Mert Karakaya, Anna Sawulska, and Maurizio Porfiri.