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The Virtual Aquarium

Goal: simulation of fish swimming. We model both muscle behavior and fish-water interactions.

Paper: M. Curatolo, L. Teresi. Modeling and simulation of fish swimming with active muscles. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 409 (2016). doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.08.025

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Stress-Free Morphing

Goal: morph elastic solids by means of distortions field, without changing the stress state

Paper: P. Nardinocchi, L. Teresi, V. Varano, The elastic metric: A review of elasticity with large distortions, Int. J. Non-Linear Mechanics (2013)