Volumetric imaging of shark tail hydrodynamics reveals a three-dimensional dual-ring vortex wake structure

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1725, 2011, Pages 3670-3678

  Flammang, Brooke E ^a   Lauder, George V ^a   Troolin, Daniel R ^b   Strand, Tyson ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSI INCORPORATED   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Shark; Swimming; Tail; Vortex

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CONTROL SYSTEM; FLOW PATTERN; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; ROBOTICS; SHARK; STIFFNESS; SWIMMING; VORTEX; WAKE;

CHONDRICHTHYES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80855164609     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0489     Document Type: Article

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