 Active bending beam for a swimming fish

An active swimming beam has a total internal bending moment $G$ containing passive elasticity and muscular actuation. Neglecting cross-sectional rotary inertia, slice angular momentum balance identifies the internal transverse force with $G_x$. Slice linear momentum balance then gives $G_{xx}=m_b{h}_{tt}-F_{\mathrm{body}}$. In Lighthill elongated-body theory, $F_{\mathrm{body}}=-\mathcal{D}(m\mathcal{D}h)$, where $\mathcal{D}={\partial }_t+U{\partial }_x$. The body and its hydrodynamic added mass therefore contribute with the same sign to the acceleration coefficient. The positive quantity $\mathcal{D}(m\mathcal{D}h)$ is the reaction on the fluid.