Harbor seal vibrissa morphology suppresses vortex-induced vibrations

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2665-2672

  Hanke, Wolf ^a   Witte, Matthias ^a   Miersch, Lars ^a   Brede, Martin ^a   Oeffnet, Johannes ^a   Michael, Mark ^a   Hanke, Frederike ^a   Leder, Alfred ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFD; Harbor seal; Hydrodynamics; Pinniped; PIV; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SEAL; TIME; UNITED STATES; VIBRATION; VIBRISSA; WATER FLOW; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOCA; PRESSURE; SEA LIONS; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION; VIBRISSAE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

OTARIIDAE; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PINNIPEDIA; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

EID: 77954854826     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.043216     Document Type: Article

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