Bio-mimetic Drag Reduction – Part 2: Aero- and Hydrodynamics

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Part 1 of this blog series outlined the different sensing mechanisms that aquatic animals possess to create spatial images of the flow fields around them. In summary fish were found to possess a network of mechanosensors distributed over their bodies called the lateral line. The lateral line consists of two separate sensory subsystems:

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