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Research into the effectiveness of flapping foil propulsion and power extraction systems has typically focused on the kinematic parameters defining the pitching and plunging motion, and used simple basic rigid airfoil shapes. In this paper, the effects of a time-varying deformable foil shape on the power extraction and propulsive efficiency of flapping foil systems are studied. Two-dimensional Navier–Stokes...