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