Do trout swim better than eels? Challenges for estimating performance based on the wake of self-propelled bodies

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 701-712

  Tytell, Eric D ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DRAG; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

MOMENTUM FLUX; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCY; VELOCITY PROFILES;

FISH;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DRAG; FISH; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

EID: 35948976995     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-007-0343-x     Document Type: Article

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