Acoustic effects accurately predict an extreme case of biological morphology

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Zhiwei ^a   Truong, Son Nguyen ^b   Müller, Rolf ^a,c  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES   (Viet Nam)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EFFECTS; BIOSONAR; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; EXTREME CASE; FIDUCIAL POINTS; PHYSICAL FUNCTION;

MAMMALS; MORPHOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 68649089072     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.038701     Document Type: Article

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