The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6949, 2003, Pages 663-666

  Hu, David L ^a   Chan, Brian ^b   Bush, John W M ^a  

^a Department of Mathematics ^*  (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHOBICITY; RIVERS; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES;

HYDRODYNAMIC PROPULSIONS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

WATER;

INSECT; LOCOMOTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENT; GERRIDAE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INSECT; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; EXTREMITIES; HETEROPTERA; HYDROPHOBICITY; LOCOMOTION; SURFACE TENSION; VIDEO RECORDING; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

GERRIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0041488672     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01793     Document Type: Article

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