Swimming movies

The Quicktime movie below is a DPIV flow visualization of the pectoral fin wake of bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus.


Movie 1: Left side: ventral view of a 20 cm sunfish swimming steadily at 10 cm/s and its pectoral fin wake illuminated by a frontal-plane (horizontal) laser sheet. Notice paired vortices shed by pectoral fin. Right side: posterior view of laser plane and fin.


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