Locomotor forces on a swimming fish: Three-dimensional vortex wake dynamics quantified using digital particle image velocimetry

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2393-2412

  Drucker, Eliot G ^a   Lauder, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluegill sunfish; Digital particle image velocimetry; Flow visualization; Hydrodynamics; Lepomis macrochirus; Pectoral fin locomotion; Swimming

Indexed keywords

LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 0032852151     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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