How the body contributes to the wake in undulatory fish swimming: Flow fields of a swimming eel (Anguilla anguilla)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 2751-2762

  Müller, Ulrike K ^a   Smit, Joris ^a   Stamhuis, Eize J ^a   Videler, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Eel; Fish; Flow visualisation; Particle image velocimetry; Swimming; Undulatory swimming

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EEL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; TAIL;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; SWIMMING; TAIL;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035746027     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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