Rotational movement of a harbor seal whisker during vortex induced vibrations

• Main Author: Hildner, Matthew (Matthew R.)
• Other Authors: Michael S. Triantafyllou., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015
• Subjects: Mechanical Engineering; Munk; harbor seal
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98968

Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2015. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 69). Harbor seal whiskers have geometry that reduces vortex induced vibrations. Previous experiments with rigid models of t...