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Note on the swimming deceleration of a dolphin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

P. P. Niiler  and
H. J. White
P. P. Niiler
Affiliation:
Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
H. J. White
Affiliation:
Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Abstract

A series of decelerative swimming motions of a dolphin were recorded underwater showing that the animal decelerated more rapidly than could be accounted for by frictional drag. The theory of swimming slender bodies was used to calculate the mean thrust on the dolphin produced by the observed motions. It is shown that the dolphin is decelerating by producing a swimming thrust opposite to the direction of swimming.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , 18 September 1969 , pp. 613 - 617
Copyright
© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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