On the role of periodic structures in the lower jaw of the atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Dible, S A ^a   Flint, J A ^a   Lepper, P A ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND-GAP THEORIES; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS); COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DIRECTION FINDING; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; SCATTERING ELEMENTS; SOUND PROPAGATION; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELLING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; AUDITION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY GAP; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOLOCATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; JAW; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOLOCATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; JAW; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 64549087628     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/4/1/015005     Document Type: Article

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