Passive cambering and flexible propulsors: Cetacean flukes

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Fish, Frank E ^a   Nusbaum, Moira K ^a   Beneski, John T ^a   Ketten, Darlene R ^b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PROPULSORS; SHAPE CHANGE; THRUST GENERATION; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; WATER FLOWS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

CETACEA; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; LAGENORHYNCHUS ACUTUS; PEPONOCEPHALA ELECTRA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; TREMATODA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOMECHANICS; CETACEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOMECHANICS; CETACEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EXTREMITIES; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROTATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 33847674969     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/1/4/S06     Document Type: Conference Paper

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