Research Research groups Member of: Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute Research interests Fluid-structure interactions Bioinspired propulsion and energy harvesting Underwater robotics Publications 13 publications Page 1 of 2 Effects of surface roughness on the propulsive performance of pitching foils Rodrigo Vilumbrales Garcia, Melike Kurt, Gabriel D. Weymouth & Bharath Ganapathisubramani, 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 982 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2023.1009 Type: article Tailoring the bending pattern of non-uniformly flexible pitching hydrofoils enhances propulsive efficiency Tianjun Han, Amin Mivehchi, Melike Kurt & Keith W Moored, 2022, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 17(6), 065003 DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac7f70 Type: article Scaling laws for the propulsive performance of a purely pitching foil in ground effect Amin Mivehchi, Qiang Zhong, Melike Kurt, Daniel B. Quinn & Keith W. Moored, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 919, R1 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.361 Type: article High-Efficiency Can Be Achieved for Non-Uniformly Flexible Pitching Hydrofoils via Tailored Collective Interactions Melike Kurt, Amin Mivehchi & Keith W Moored, 2021, Fluids, 6(7), 233 DOI: 10.3390/fluids6070233 Type: article Two-dimensionally stable self-organization arises in simple schooling swimmers through hydrodynamic interactions Melike Kurt, Pedro Costa Ormonde, Amin Mivehchi & Keith W. Moored, 2021 Type: other Exact solutions for ground effect Peter J. Baddoo, Melike Kurt, Lorna J. Ayton & Keith W. Moored, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 891, R2 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.149 Type: article Flow Interactions Between Low Aspect Ratio Hydrofoils in In-line and Staggered Arrangements Melike Kurt, Azar Eslam Panah & Keith W. Moored, 2020, Biomimetics, 5(2), 13 DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics5020013 Type: article Swimming freely near the ground leads to flow-mediated equilibrium altitudes Melike Kurt, Jackson Cochran-Carney, Qiang Zhong, Amin Mivehchi, Daniel B. Quinn & Keith W. Moored, 2019, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 875, R1 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2019.540 Type: article Unsteady Performance of Finite-Span Pitching Propulsors in Side-by-Side Arrangements Melike Kurt & Keith W Moored, 2018 DOI: 10.2514/6.2018-3732 Type: conference Flow interactions of two- and three-dimensional networked bio-inspired control elements in an in-line arrangement Melike Kurt & Keith W Moored, 2018, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 13(4), 045002 DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/aabf4c Type: article Pagination 1 2 Next page Next