ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
The most efficient metazoan swimmer creates a 'virtual wall' to enhance performance.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Exploring the sensitivity in jellyfish locomotion under variations in scale, frequency, and duty cycle.Journal of mathematical biology · 2021Article
- The most efficient metazoan swimmer creates a 'virtual wall' to enhance performance.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
It has been well documented that animals (and machines) swimming or flying near a solid boundary get a boost in performance. This ground effect is often modelled as an interaction between a mirrored pair of vortices represented by a true vortex and an opposite sign 'virtual vortex' on the other side of the wall. However, most animals do not swim near solid surfaces and thus near body vortex-vortex interactions in open-water swimmers have been poorly investigated. In this study, we examine the most energetically efficient metazoan swimmer known to date, the jellyfish
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