The role of vortices in animal locomotion in fluids
The aim of this paper is to show the significance of vortices in animal locomotion in fluids on two deliberately chosen examples. The first example concerns lift generation by bird and insect wings, the second example briefly mentiones swimming and walking on water. In all the examples, the vortices...
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| Language: | English |
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University of West Bohemia
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Applied and Computational Mechanics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.kme.zcu.cz/acm/acm/article/view/250/299 |