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Eighth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena
August, 28-30, 2013, Poitiers, Futuroscope, France

DOI: 10.1615/TSFP8

FLUKEPRINTS OF CETACEANS AND THE CORRESPONDING SHEAR FLOW PHENOMENON

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DOI: 10.1615/TSFP8.940
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摘要

When walking in the snow, mud or sand, our feet leave a characteristic imprint in the medium. The naturalists, hunters or paleontologists use them to identify animals. The medium have plastic properties which allow the persistence of the footprint. Here, we consider another kind of footprint, in a fluid medium, whose essential property is its ephemeral nature much like wake vortices after the take-off of an aircraft. We study the flukeprint of cetaceans at the surface of water. We will present laboratory experiments with an artificial fluke which show that the formation of flukeprints is mainly a wave-current interaction process with a peculiar shear flow.

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