Viscous entrainment on hairy surfaces
Nectar-drinking bats and honeybees have tongues covered with hairlike structures, enhancing their ability to take up viscous nectar by dipping. Using a combination of model experiments and theory, we explore the physical mechanisms that govern viscous entrainment in a hairy texture. Hairy surfaces a...
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American Physical Society
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114268 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8421-5583 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-7496 |