How bumps on whale flippers delay stall: An aerodynamic model

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Van Nierop, Ernst A ^a   Alben, Silas ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVELENGTH; WIND TUNNELS;

MODEL HUMPBACK; STALL ANGLE; WHALE FLIPPERS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 38949101072     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.054502     Document Type: Article

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