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SUBMITTER: Van Wassenbergh S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2575385 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Wassenbergh Sam S Aerts Peter P
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20090201 31
Aquatic suction feeding in vertebrates involves extremely unsteady flow, externally as well as internally of the expanding mouth cavity. Consequently, studying the hydrodynamics involved in this process is a challenging research area, where experimental studies and mathematical models gradually aid our understanding of how suction feeding works mechanically. Especially for flow patterns inside the mouth cavity, our current knowledge is almost entirely based on modelling studies. In the present p ...[more]