Fish foot prints: Morphology and energetics of the wake behind a continuously swimming mullet (Chelon labrosus risso)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2893-2906

  Muller U K ^a   Van Den Heuvel, B L E ^b   Stamhuis, E J ^b   Videler, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chelon labrosus; Flow field; Locomotion; Mullet; Particle image velocimetry; Swimming; Wake structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040894949     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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