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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
Volume 6, Issue 31, Pages 149-158Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0311
Keywords
feeding; prey capture; computational fluid dynamics; hydrodynamics; modelling; viscosity
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- The University of Antwerp and FWO-VI [G 053907]
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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 paper, we critically discuss some of the assumptions and limitations of previous analytical models of suction feeding using computational fluid dynamics.
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