2 papers
q-bio.QM2017
Under the sea: Pulsing corals in ambient flow
Nicholas A. Battista, Julia E. Samson, Shilpa Khatri +1
While many organisms filter feed and exchange heat or nutrients in flow, few benthic organisms also actively pulse to enhance feeding and exchange. One example is the pulsing soft…
q-bio.QM2017
Pulsing corals: A story of scale and mixing
Julia E. Samson, Nicholas A. Battista, Shilpa Khatri +1
Effective methods of fluid transport vary across scale. A commonly used dimensionless number for quantifying the effective scale of fluid transport is the Reynolds number, Re, whic…