A numerical study of the effects of bell pulsation dynamics and oral arms on the exchange currents generated by the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1911-1921

  Hamlet, Christina ^a   Santhanakrishnan, Arvind ^b   Miller, Laura A ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Feeding Current; Jellyfish; Mathematical Model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; JELLYFISH; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCYPHOZOA; SWIMMING;

CASSIOPEA XAMACHANA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 79957471578     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.052506     Document Type: Article

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