Fin

For other uses, see Fin (disambiguation).

A fin is a thin component or appendage attached to a larger body or structure. Fins typically function as foils that produce lift or thrust, or provide the ability to steer or stabilize motion while traveling in water, air, or other fluids. Fins are also used to increase surface areas for heat transfer purposes, or simply as ornamentation.^[1][2]

Fins typically function as foils that provide lift or thrust, or provide the ability to steer or stabilize motion in water or air

Fins first evolved on fish as a means of locomotion. Fish fins are used to generate thrust and control the subsequent motion. Fish and other aquatic animals, such as cetaceans, actively propel and steer themselves with pectoral and tail fins. As they swim, they use other fins, such as dorsal and anal fins, to achieve stability and refine their maneuvering.^[3][4]

The fins on the tails of cetaceans, ichthyosaurs, metriorhynchids, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs are called flukes.

Thrust generation

Foil shaped fins generate thrust when moved, the lift of the fin sets water or air in motion and pushes the fin in the opposite direction. Aquatic animals get significant thrust by moving fins back and forth in water. Often the tail fin is used, but some aquatic animals generate thrust from pectoral fins.^[3] Fins can also generate thrust if they are rotated in air or water. Turbines and propellers (and sometimes fans and pumps) use a number of rotating fins, also called foils, wings, arms or blades. Propellers use the fins to translate torquing force to lateral thrust, thus propelling an aircraft or ship.^[5] Turbines work in reverse, using the lift of the blades to generate torque and power from moving gases or water.^[6]

Moving fins can provide thrust

 

Fish get thrust moving vertical tail fins from side to side

 

Cetaceans get thrust moving horizontal tail fins up and down

 

Stingrays get thrust from large pectoral fins

 

Ship propeller

 

Compressor fins (blades)

 

Cavitation damage is evident on this propeller

 

Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling

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Finlets may influence the way a vortex develops around the tail fin.

Cavitation can be a problem with high power applications, resulting in damage to propellers or turbines, as well as noise and loss of power.^[7] Cavitation occurs when negative pressure causes bubbles (cavities) to form in a liquid, which then promptly and violently collapse. It can cause significant damage and wear.^[7] Cavitation damage can also occur to the tail fins of powerful swimming marine animals, such as dolphins and tuna. Cavitation is more likely to occur near the surface of the ocean, where the ambient water pressure is relatively low. Even if they have the power to swim faster, dolphins may have to restrict their speed because collapsing cavitation bubbles on their tail are too painful.^[8] Cavitation also slows tuna, but for a different reason. Unlike dolphins, these fish do not feel the bubbles, because they have bony fins without nerve endings. Nevertheless, they cannot swim faster because the cavitation bubbles create a vapor film around their fins that limits their speed. Lesions have been found on tuna that are consistent with cavitation damage.^[8]

Scombrid fishes (tuna, mackerel and bonito) are particularly high-performance swimmers. Along the margin at the rear of their bodies is a line of small rayless, non-retractable fins, known as finlets. There has been much speculation about the function of these finlets. Research done in 2000 and 2001 by Nauen and Lauder indicated that "the finlets have a hydrodynamic effect on local flow during steady swimming" and that "the most posterior finlet is oriented to redirect flow into the developing tail vortex, which may increase thrust produced by the tail of swimming mackerel".^[9][10][11]

Fish use multiple fins, so it is possible that a given fin can have a hydrodynamic interaction with another fin. In particular, the fins immediately upstream of the caudal (tail) fin may be proximate fins that can directly affect the flow dynamics at the caudal fin. In 2011, researchers using volumetric imaging techniques were able to generate "the first instantaneous three-dimensional views of wake structures as they are produced by freely swimming fishes". They found that "continuous tail beats resulted in the formation of a linked chain of vortex rings" and that "the dorsal and anal fin wakes are rapidly entrained by the caudal fin wake, approximately within the timeframe of a subsequent tail beat".^[12]

Motion control

 

Fins are used by aquatic animals, such as this orca, to generate thrust and control the subsequent motion ^[13][14]

Once motion has been established, the motion itself can be controlled with the use of other fins.^[3][15][16] Boats control direction (yaw) with fin-like rudders, and roll with stabilizer and keel fins.^[15] Airplanes achieve similar results with small specialised fins that change the shape of their wings and tail fins.^[16]

Specialised fins are used to control motion

 

Fish, boats and airplanes need control of three degrees of rotational freedom^[17][18][19]

 

The dorsal fin of a white shark contain dermal fibers that work "like riggings that stabilize a ship's mast", and stiffen dynamically as the shark swims faster to control roll and yaw.^[20]

 

Caudal fin of a great white shark

 

A rudder corrects yaw

 

A fin keel limits roll and sideways drift

 

Ship stabilising fins reduce roll

 

Ailerons control roll

 

Elevators control pitch

 

The rudder controls yaw

Stabilising fins are used as fletching on arrows and some darts,^[21] and at the rear of some bombs, missiles, rockets and self-propelled torpedoes.^[22][23] These are typically planar and shaped like small wings, although grid fins are sometimes used.^[24] Static fins have also been used for one satellite, GOCE.

Static tail fins are used as stabilizers

 

Fletching on an arrow

 

Asymmetric stabilizing fins impart spin to this Soviet artillery rocket

 

Conventional "planar" fins on a RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile

Temperature regulation

Engineering fins are also used as heat transfer fins to regulate temperature in heat sinks or fin radiators.^[25][26]

Fins can regulate temperature

 

Motorbikes use fins to cool the engine ^[27]

 

Oil heaters convect with fins

 

Sailfish raise their dorsal fin to cool down or to herd schooling fish^[28][29]

Ornamentation and other uses

In biology, fins can have an adaptive significance as sexual ornaments. During courtship, the female cichlid, Pelvicachromis taeniatus, displays a large and visually arresting purple pelvic fin. "The researchers found that males clearly preferred females with a larger pelvic fin and that pelvic fins grew in a more disproportionate way than other fins on female fish."^[30][31]

Ornamentation

 

During courtship, the female cichlid, Pelvicachromis taeniatus, displays her visually arresting purple pelvic fin

 

Spinosaurus may have used its dorsal fin (sail) as a courtship display ^[32]: 28

 

Car tail fins in the 1950s were largely decorative ^[33]

Reshaping human feet with swim fins, rather like the tail fin of a fish, add thrust and efficiency to the kicks of a swimmer or underwater diver^[34][35] Surfboard fins provide surfers with means to maneuver and control their boards. Contemporary surfboards often have a centre fin and two cambered side fins.^[36]

The bodies of reef fishes are often shaped differently from open water fishes. Open water fishes are usually built for speed, streamlined like torpedoes to minimise friction as they move through the water. Reef fish operate in the relatively confined spaces and complex underwater landscapes of coral reefs. For this manoeuvrability is more important than straight line speed, so coral reef fish have developed bodies which optimize their ability to dart and change direction. They outwit predators by dodging into fissures in the reef or playing hide and seek around coral heads.^[37]

The pectoral and pelvic fins of many reef fish, such as butterflyfish, damselfish and angelfish, have evolved so they can act as brakes and allow complex maneuvers.^[38] Many reef fish, such as butterflyfish, damselfish and angelfish, have evolved bodies which are deep and laterally compressed like a pancake, and will fit into fissures in rocks. Their pelvic and pectoral fins are designed differently, so they act together with the flattened body to optimise maneuverability.^[37] Some fishes, such as puffer fish, filefish and trunkfish, rely on pectoral fins for swimming and hardly use tail fins at all.^[38]

Other uses

 

Swim fins add thrust to the kicks of a human swimmer

 

Surfboard fins allow surfers to maneuver their boards

 

In some Asian countries shark fins are a culinary delicacy^[39]

 

In recent years, car fins have evolved into highly functional spoilers and wings^[40]

 

Many reef fish have pectoral and pelvic fins optimised for flattened bodies ^[37]

 

Frog fish use their pectoral and pelvic fins to walk along the ocean bottom ^[41]

 

Flying fish use enlarged pectoral fins to glide above the surface of the water ^[42]

Evolution

 

Aquatic animals typically use fins for locomotion
(1) pectoral fins (paired), (2) pelvic fins (paired), (3) dorsal fin, (4) adipose fin, (5) anal fin, (6) caudal (tail) fin

Aristotle recognised the distinction between analogous and homologous structures, and made the following prophetic comparison: "Birds in a way resemble fishes. For birds have their wings in the upper part of their bodies and fishes have two fins in the front part of their bodies. Birds have feet on their underpart and most fishes have a second pair of fins in their under-part and near their front fins."

– Aristotle, De incessu animalium ^[43]

There is an old theory, proposed by anatomist Carl Gegenbaur, which has been often disregarded in science textbooks, "that fins and (later) limbs evolved from the gills of an extinct vertebrate". Gaps in the fossil record had not allowed a definitive conclusion. In 2009, researchers from the University of Chicago found evidence that the "genetic architecture of gills, fins and limbs is the same", and that "the skeleton of any appendage off the body of an animal is probably patterned by the developmental genetic program that we have traced back to formation of gills in sharks".^[44][45][46] Recent studies support the idea that gill arches and paired fins are serially homologous and thus that fins may have evolved from gill tissues.^[47]

Fish are the ancestors of all mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians.^[48] In particular, terrestrial tetrapods (four-legged animals) evolved from fish and made their first forays onto land 400 million years ago. They used paired pectoral and pelvic fins for locomotion. The pectoral fins developed into forelegs (arms in the case of humans) and the pelvic fins developed into hind legs.^[49] Much of the genetic machinery that builds a walking limb in a tetrapod is already present in the swimming fin of a fish.^[50][51]

 

Comparison between A) the swimming fin of a lobe-finned fish and B) the walking leg of a tetrapod. Bones considered to correspond with each other have the same color.

 

In a parallel but independent evolution, the ancient reptile Ichthyosaurus communis developed fins (or flippers) very similar to fish (or dolphins)

In 2011, researchers at Monash University in Australia used primitive but still living lungfish "to trace the evolution of pelvic fin muscles to find out how the load-bearing hind limbs of the tetrapods evolved."^[52][53] Further research at the University of Chicago found bottom-walking lungfishes had already evolved characteristics of the walking gaits of terrestrial tetrapods.^[54][55]

In a classic example of convergent evolution, the pectoral limbs of pterosaurs, birds and bats further evolved along independent paths into flying wings. Even with flying wings there are many similarities with walking legs, and core aspects of the genetic blueprint of the pectoral fin have been retained.^[56][57]

About 200 million years ago the first mammals appeared. A group of these mammals started returning to the sea about 52 million years ago, thus completing a circle. These are the cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Recent DNA analysis suggests that cetaceans evolved from within the even-toed ungulates, and that they share a common ancestor with the hippopotamus.^[58][59] About 23 million years ago another group of bearlike land mammals started returning to the sea. These were the seals.^[60] What had become walking limbs in cetaceans and seals evolved further, independently in a reverse form of convergent evolution, back to new forms of swimming fins. The forelimbs became flippers and the hind limbs became a tail terminating in two fins, called a fluke in the case of cetaceans.^[61] Fish tails are usually vertical and move from side to side. Cetacean flukes are horizontal and move up and down, because cetacean spines bend the same way as in other mammals.^[62][63]

Ichthyosaurs are ancient reptiles that resembled dolphins. They first appeared about 245 million years ago and disappeared about 90 million years ago.

"This sea-going reptile with terrestrial ancestors converged so strongly on fishes that it actually evolved a dorsal fin and tail in just the right place and with just the right hydrological design. These structures are all the more remarkable because they evolved from nothing — the ancestral terrestrial reptile had no hump on its back or blade on its tail to serve as a precursor."^[64]

The biologist Stephen Jay Gould said the ichthyosaur was his favorite example of convergent evolution.^[65]

Robotics

 

In the 1990s the CIA built a robotic catfish called Charlie to test the feasibility of unmanned underwater vehicles

External videos
Charlie the catfish – CIA video
AquaPenguin – Festo, YouTube
AquaRay – Festo, YouTube
AquaJelly – Festo, YouTube
AiraCuda – Festo, YouTube

The use of fins for the propulsion of aquatic animals can be remarkably effective. It has been calculated that some fish can achieve a propulsive efficiency greater than 90%.^[3] Fish can accelerate and maneuver much more effectively than boats or submarine, and produce less water disturbance and noise. This has led to biomimetic studies of underwater robots which attempt to emulate the locomotion of aquatic animals.^[66] An example is the Robot Tuna built by the Institute of Field Robotics, to analyze and mathematically model thunniform motion.^[67] In 2005, the Sea Life London Aquarium displayed three robotic fish created by the computer science department at the University of Essex. The fish were designed to be autonomous, swimming around and avoiding obstacles like real fish. Their creator claimed that he was trying to combine "the speed of tuna, acceleration of a pike, and the navigating skills of an eel".^[68][69][70]

The AquaPenguin, developed by Festo of Germany, copies the streamlined shape and propulsion by front flippers of penguins.^[71][72] Festo also developed AquaRay,^[73] AquaJelly^[74] and AiraCuda,^[75] respectively emulating the locomotion of manta rays, jellyfish and barracuda.

In 2004, Hugh Herr at MIT prototyped a biomechatronic robotic fish with a living actuator by surgically transplanting muscles from frog legs to the robot and then making the robot swim by pulsing the muscle fibers with electricity.^[76][77]

Robotic fish offer some research advantages, such as the ability to examine part of a fish design in isolation from the rest, and variance of a single parameter, such as flexibility or direction. Researchers can directly measure forces more easily than in live fish. "Robotic devices also facilitate three-dimensional kinematic studies and correlated hydrodynamic analyses, as the location of the locomotor surface can be known accurately. And, individual components of a natural motion (such as outstroke vs. instroke of a flapping appendage) can be programmed separately, which is certainly difficult to achieve when working with a live animal."^[78]

See also

• Aquatic locomotion
• Fin and flipper locomotion
• Fish locomotion
• Robot locomotion
• RoboTuna
• Sail (submarine)
• Surfboard fin

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Further reading

• Blake, Robert William (2004). "Fish functional design and swimming performance". Journal of Fish Biology. 65 (5): 1193–1222. Bibcode:2004JFBio..65.1193B. doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2004.00568.x.
• Blake, Robert William (1983) Fish Locomotion 2023-12-16 at the Wayback Machine CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521243032.
• Breder, CM (1926). "The locomotion of fishes". Zoologica. 4: 159–297.
• Fish, FE; Peacock, JE; Rohr, JJ (2002). "Stabilization Mechanism in Swimming Odontocete Cetaceans by Phased Movements" (PDF). Marine Mammal Science. 19 (3): 515–528. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2003.tb01318.x. (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
• Hawkins, JD; Sepulveda, CA; Graham, JB; Dickson, KA (2003). "Swimming performance studies on the eastern Pacific bonito Sarda chiliensis, a close relative of the tunas (family Scombridae) II. Kinematics". The Journal of Experimental Biology. 206 (16): 2749–2758. doi:10.1242/jeb.00496. PMID 12847120.
• Lauder, GV; Drucker, EG (2004). "Morphology and experimental hydrodynamics of fish fin control surfaces" (PDF). Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 29 (3): 556–571. Bibcode:2004IJOE...29..556L. doi:10.1109/joe.2004.833219. S2CID 36207755. (PDF) from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
• Lauder, GV; Madden, PGA (2007). (PDF). Experiments in Fluids. 43 (5): 641–653. Bibcode:2007ExFl...43..641L. doi:10.1007/s00348-007-0357-4. S2CID 4998727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-24.
• Standen, EM (2009). "Muscle activity and hydrodynamic function of pelvic fins in trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)". The Journal of Experimental Biology. 213 (5): 831–841. doi:10.1242/jeb.033084. PMID 20154199.
• Tangorra JL, CEsposito CJ and Lauder GV (2009) "Biorobotic fins for investigations of fish locomotion" 2011-04-01 at the Wayback Machine In: Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 2120–2125. E-ISBN 978-1-4244-3804-4.
• Tu X and Terzopoulos D (1994) "Artificial fishes: Physics, locomotion, perception, behavior"^{[permanent dead link]} In: Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pages 43–50. ISBN 0-89791-667-0. doi:10.1145/192161.192170
• Weihs, Daniel (2002). "Stability versus maneuverability in aquatic locomotion". Integrated and Computational Biology. 42 (1): 127–134. doi:10.1093/icb/42.1.127. PMID 21708701.

External links

External videos
Robotic fish to monitor pollution in harbours YouTube
Robotic Fish YouTube
Robot Fish YouTube
Robotic Shark YouTube
Evolution of the Surfboard Fin – YouTube

• Locomotion in Fish Earthlife.
• Computational fluid dynamics tutorial Many examples and images, with references to robotic fish.
• Fish Skin Research University of British Columbia.
• A fin-tuned design The Economist, 19 November 2008.