Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions
Key unresolved questions about particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes are identified and discussed, focusing on areas with the potential for substantial future discovery. The published hypotheses that are explored have broad applicability to biological filtration and bioinspired...
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| description | Key unresolved questions about particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes are identified and discussed, focusing on areas with the potential for substantial future discovery. The published hypotheses that are explored have broad applicability to biological filtration and bioinspired improvements in commercial and industrial crossflow microfiltration processes and microfluidics. As the first synthesis of the primary literature on the particle separation mechanisms of marine, estuarine, and freshwater suspension-feeding fishes, the goals are to enable comparisons with invertebrate suspension-feeding processes, stimulate future theoretical and empirical studies, and further the development of biomimetic physical and computational fluid dynamics models. Of the eight particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes, six have been proposed within the past twenty years (inertial lift and shear-induced migration, reduction of effective gap size by vortices, cross-step filtration, vortical flow along outer faces of gill raker plates, ricochet filtration, and lateral displacement). The pace of discovery is anticipated to continue accelerating. Multidisciplinary collaboration and integration among biologists and engineers (including chemical, mechanical, biomedical, and filtration engineering) will result in new perspectives to identify patterns and potential unifying mechanisms across the breadth of suspension-feeding fish taxa, morphology, and function. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2fe67fca289740e386311569c59dd3dd2024-04-02T05:26:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452024-04-011110.3389/fmars.2024.13311641331164Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directionsS. Laurie SandersonKey unresolved questions about particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes are identified and discussed, focusing on areas with the potential for substantial future discovery. The published hypotheses that are explored have broad applicability to biological filtration and bioinspired improvements in commercial and industrial crossflow microfiltration processes and microfluidics. As the first synthesis of the primary literature on the particle separation mechanisms of marine, estuarine, and freshwater suspension-feeding fishes, the goals are to enable comparisons with invertebrate suspension-feeding processes, stimulate future theoretical and empirical studies, and further the development of biomimetic physical and computational fluid dynamics models. Of the eight particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes, six have been proposed within the past twenty years (inertial lift and shear-induced migration, reduction of effective gap size by vortices, cross-step filtration, vortical flow along outer faces of gill raker plates, ricochet filtration, and lateral displacement). The pace of discovery is anticipated to continue accelerating. Multidisciplinary collaboration and integration among biologists and engineers (including chemical, mechanical, biomedical, and filtration engineering) will result in new perspectives to identify patterns and potential unifying mechanisms across the breadth of suspension-feeding fish taxa, morphology, and function.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1331164/fullsuspension feedingfilter feedingparticle separationgill rakerscrossflow filtrationmicrofiltration |
| spellingShingle | S. Laurie Sanderson Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions Frontiers in Marine Science suspension feeding filter feeding particle separation gill rakers crossflow filtration microfiltration |
| title | Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions |
| title_full | Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions |
| title_fullStr | Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions |
| title_short | Particle separation mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes: key questions and future directions |
| title_sort | particle separation mechanisms in suspension feeding fishes key questions and future directions |
| topic | suspension feeding filter feeding particle separation gill rakers crossflow filtration microfiltration |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1331164/full |
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