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