A non-invasive dolphin telemetry tag: Computer design and numerical flow simulation

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pavlov, Vadim V ^a   Rashad, Aqeel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

CAD; CFD; Dolphin; Hydrodynamics; Modeling; Tag design; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84855202436     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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