Fish Exploiting Vortices Decrease Muscle Activity

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5650, 2003, Pages 1566-1569

  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 Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

AXIAL MUSCLES; NEURAL CONTROL;

BIODIVERSITY;

FISH; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE; SWIMMING; VORTICITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENT; FISH; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; TROUT; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX MOTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISHES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SWIMMING; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0345374585     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088295     Document Type: Article

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