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Description:: Harbor seal whiskers exhibit a tapering elliptical geometry uniquely suited to detect wakes (trails of water produced by upstream bodies) in ways a regular, tapering, or elliptical cylinder cannot. Previous studies into the matter have relied on idealized representations of the geometry the whiskers seem to take on and have...
Keyword:: Modeling, Biomimicry, Harbor Seal, Imaging, Seal Whiskers, Fluid Dynamics, and Biomimetics
Subject:: Mechanical Engineering
Creator:: Sophia Wong and Madeline Corrigan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/05/2019
Date Modified:: 09/05/2019
Date Created:: 2019-05-29
Resource Type:: Poster

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