Aquatic suction feeding dynamics: Insights from computational modelling

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 149-158

  Van Wassenbergh, Sam ^a   Aerts, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Feeding; Hydrodynamics; Modelling; Prey capture; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; FEEDING; FLOW PATTERNS; FUNCTIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISCOSITY;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MODELLING; MODELLING STUDIES; MOUTH CAVITIES; PREY CAPTURE; RESEARCH AREAS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FEEDING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; VERTEBRA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149142996     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0311     Document Type: Review

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