A study on the surface shape of fish scales

JSME International Journal, Series C: Mechanical Systems, Machine Elements and Manufacturing

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1100-1105

  Sudo, Seiichi ^a   Tsuyuki, Koji ^a   Ito, Yoshiyasu ^a   Ikohagi, Toshiaki ^b  

^a IWAKI MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D measurement; Biofluid mechanics; Biomechanics; Fish scale; Hydrodynamics; Morphology

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FISH SCALES;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

BIOMECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036961687     PISSN: 13447653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmec.45.1100     Document Type: Article

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