The fish tail motion forms an attached leading edge vortex

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1756, 2013, Pages

  Borazjani, Iman ^a   Daghooghi, Mohsen ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Hydrodynamics; Leading edge vortex; Locomotion; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FISH; FLOW PATTERN; HYDRODYNAMICS; INSECT; LOCOMOTION; PARADIGM SHIFT; WAKE; WING;

AVES; HEXAPODA; PISCES;

EID: 84878347383     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2071     Document Type: Article

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