UCI - San Joaquin Marsh Reserve

04 Mar, 04 AM - 26 Jun, 07 AM

A wide diversity of aquatic animals swim at intermediate Reynolds numbers, where neither inertial, nor viscous forces contribute to propulsion. I propose the study of the relative importance of these forces during the powerstroke of the lesser waterboatmen (<i>Corixa Punctata</i>) through a novel approach for estimating force coefficients in a freely swimming animal. Combined with blade-element modeling, and inverse dynamics, high-speed video of swimming boatmen of different sizes will be used to elucidate forces. Because of the difficult nature of high-speed digital video, it is often useful to collect several animals of a particular size. Therefore, I would like to collect 10 to 20 water boatmen at a time, removing them from the ponds with no more than 1 liter of pond water. Appropriately 5 separate collection trips will be needed, during the warmer months of the year.

Visit #28126 @UCI - San Joaquin Marsh Reserve

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Under Project # 25020 | Research

Hydrodynamics of Water Boatmen

graduate_student - University of California, Irvine

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