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Separability of drag and thrust in undulatory animals and machines

For nearly a century, researchers have tried to understand the swimming of aquatic animals in terms of a balance between the forward thrust from swimming movements and drag on the body. Prior approaches have failed to provide a separation of these two forces for undulatory swimmers such as lamprey a...

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Autores principales: Bale, Rahul, Shirgaonkar, Anup A., Neveln, Izaak D., Bhalla, Amneet Pal Singh, MacIver, Malcolm A., Patankar, Neelesh A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25491270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07329