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Instantaneous position of a flexible foil (thick solid line at left) and vortex-sheet wake (dotted line) shed from the foil’s trailing edge, computed by the methods of (Alben 2009; Alben et al. 2012). Asterisks at the right denote the locations of point vortices used to approximate far-field portions of the vortex sheet.
