Natural drinking strategies

We examine the fluid mechanics of drinking in nature. We classify the drinking strategies of a broad range of creatures according to the principal forces involved, and present physical pictures for each style. Simple scaling arguments are developed and tested against existing data. While suction is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kim, Wonjung, Bush, John W. M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80405
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-7256