The Kármán gait: Novel body kinematics of rainbow trout swimming in a vortex street

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1059-1073

  Liao, James C ^a   Beal, David N ^b   Lauder, George V ^a   Triantafyllou, Michael S ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cylinder; Drafting; Drag wake; Entraining; Hydrodynamic perturbation; K rm n gait; K rm n street; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Rainbow trout; Swimming kinematics; Tacking; Tuning; Vortex; Vortex street

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINBOW TROUT; SWIMMING; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0242417457     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00209     Document Type: Article

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