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Integrating the determinants of suction feeding performance in centrarchid fishes
(Company of Biologists, 2008-10-07)
When suction-feeding vertebrates expand their buccal cavity to draw water into their mouth, they also exert a hydrodynamic force
on their prey. This force is key to strike success, directly countering forces exerted by ...
Timing is everything: Coordination of strike kinematics affects the force exerted by suction feeding fish on attached prey
(Journal of Experimental BiologyCompany of Biologists, 2007-07-17)
During aquatic suction feeding, the predator opens its
mouth and rapidly expands its buccal cavity, generating a
flow field external to the mouth. The rapid expansion of the
buccal cavity produces high fluid velocities ...
Time resolved measurements of the flow generated by suction feeding fish
(Experiments in fluids, 2007)
The Pressures of suction feeding: The Relation between buccal pressure and induced fluid speed in centrarchid fishes
(The Company of Biologists, 2006-06-14)
Suction feeding fish rapidly expand their oral cavity,
resulting in a flow of water directed towards the mouth
that is accompanied by a drop in pressure inside the
buccal cavity. Pressure inside the mouth and fluid ...
Multidimensional analysis of suction feeding performance in fishes: Fluid speed, acceleration, strike accuracy and the ingested volume of water
(The Company of Biologists, 2006-05-03)
Suction feeding fish draw prey into the mouth using a
flow field that they generate external to the head. In this
paper we present a multidimensional perspective on
suction feeding performance that we illustrate in ...
Spatial and temporal patterns of water flow generated by suction-feeding bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus resolved by Particle Image Velocimetry
(The Company of Biologists, 2005-05-24)
The suction-feeding fish generates a flow field external
to its head in order to draw prey into the mouth. To date
there are very few empirical measurements that
characterize the fluid mechanics of suction feeding,
p ...
Sucking while swimming: Evaluating the effects of ram speed on suction generation in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus using digital particle image velocimetry
(The Company of Biologists, 2005-05-11)
It is well established that suction feeding fish use a
variable amount of swimming (ram) during prey capture.
However, the fluid mechanical effects of ram on suction
feeding are not well established. In this study ...
Studies of turbulence models in a computational fluid dynamics model of a blood pump
(Artificial organs, 2003-10-14)
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used widely in design of rotary blood pumps. The choice of turbulence model is not obvious and plays an important role on the accuracy of CFD predictions. TASCflow (ANSYS Inc., Canonsburg, ...
A Prototype HeartQuest ventricular assist device for particle image velocimetry measurements
(Artificial organs, 2002-11-01)
The objective of this study is to fully characterize the flow within the HeartQuest ventricular assist device (VAD), a magnetically levitated centrifugal VAD, using particle image velocimetry (PIV) to identify regions of ...
The Application of quantitative oil streaking to the HeartQuest left ventricular assist device
(Artificial organs, 2002-11-01)
Methods of flow visualization using oil streaking are established techniques for investigating surface shear and near wall flow patterns. Recent studies have used an array of oil dots on a surface which form streaks when ...