Leading-edge tubercles delay stall on humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) flippers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Miklosovic, D S ^a   Murray, M M ^a   Howle, L E ^b   Fish, F E ^c  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIODIVERSITY; DRAG; OCEAN HABITATS; WIND TUNNELS;

HUMPBACK WHALE; PROTUBERANCES; TUBERCLES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

FISH;

EID: 2442656379     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1688341     Document Type: Article

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