Reynolds number limits for jet propulsion: A numerical study of simplified jellyfish

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 84-95

  Herschlag, Gregory ^a   Miller, Laura ^a  

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

Author keywords

Animal swimming; Biological fluid dynamics; Biomechanics; Immersed boundary method

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; INERTIA; JELLYFISH; JET FLOW; LOCOMOTION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIMMING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; JELLYFISH; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SWIMMING; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; SCYPHOZOA; SWIMMING; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALIA; AURELIA AURITA; CEPHALOPODA; NEMOPSIS BACHEI; OCTOPODA; PECTINIDAE; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 79960316967     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.035     Document Type: Article

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