Seals can accurately track fish trails as far as 180 m away solely using ultrasensitive whiskers. A high-aspect-ratio bluff body vibrates due to its shedding vortices when the oncoming flow is present, or it is being towed in still water. However, the undulating morphology of Phocid seal whiskers can reduce vortex-induced vibrations (VIV), rendering seals highly sensitive to flow stimuli. This thesis studied the form and function of seal whiskers, involving 1) geometric parameters (the formulated 3D whisker geometry, length and thickness distributions of all whiskers on the seal muzzle, and reshaped 3D distributions of whiskers), 2) mechanical responses (vibrations in the flow and natural frequencies of seal whiskers), and 3) biomimetic pot...
Seal whiskers have been well studied in view of their remarkable hydrodynamic trail tracking capabil...
Pinnipeds like seals and sea lions use their whiskers in hunting their prey in dark and turbid condi...
Seals are able to accurately detect minute disturbances in the ambient flowenvironment using their w...
Seals can accurately track fish trails as far as 180 m away solely using ultrasensitive whiskers. A ...
Seals can detect prey up to 180 m away using only their flow-sensing whiskers. The unique undulating...
Seals are known to use their highly-sensitive whiskers to precisely follow the hydrodynamic trail le...
Seals are known to use their highly-sensitive whiskers to precisely follow the hydrodynamic trail le...
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the M...
© The Author(s), 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attributi...
This paper presents a flow-structure interaction simulation-aided morphology optimization of harbor ...
Many marine animals perform fascinating survival hydrodynamics and perceive their surroundings throu...
Although it is known that seals can use their whiskers (vibrissae) to extract relevant information f...
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here ...
peer reviewedHarbor seals (Phoca vitulina) often live in dark and turbid waters, where their mystaci...
Seal whiskers have been well studied in view of their remarkable hydrodynamic trail tracking capabil...
Pinnipeds like seals and sea lions use their whiskers in hunting their prey in dark and turbid condi...
Seals are able to accurately detect minute disturbances in the ambient flowenvironment using their w...
Seals can accurately track fish trails as far as 180 m away solely using ultrasensitive whiskers. A ...
Seals can detect prey up to 180 m away using only their flow-sensing whiskers. The unique undulating...
Seals are known to use their highly-sensitive whiskers to precisely follow the hydrodynamic trail le...
Seals are known to use their highly-sensitive whiskers to precisely follow the hydrodynamic trail le...
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the M...
© The Author(s), 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attributi...
This paper presents a flow-structure interaction simulation-aided morphology optimization of harbor ...
Many marine animals perform fascinating survival hydrodynamics and perceive their surroundings throu...
Although it is known that seals can use their whiskers (vibrissae) to extract relevant information f...
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here ...
peer reviewedHarbor seals (Phoca vitulina) often live in dark and turbid waters, where their mystaci...
Seal whiskers have been well studied in view of their remarkable hydrodynamic trail tracking capabil...
Pinnipeds like seals and sea lions use their whiskers in hunting their prey in dark and turbid condi...
Seals are able to accurately detect minute disturbances in the ambient flowenvironment using their w...