Why can a water strider be on water surface?
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Impulsive fluid forcing and water strider locomotion
This paper presents a study of the global response of a fluid to impulsive and localized forcing; it has been motivated by the recent laboratory experiments on the locomotion of water-walking insects reported in Hu, Chan & Bush (Nature, vol. 424, 2003, p. 663). These insects create both waves and vortices by their rapid leg strokes and it has been a matter of some debate whether either form of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Visualization Society of Japan
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1884-037X,0916-4731
DOI: 10.3154/jvs.30.028