| one publication added to basket [254700] | Fish mouths as engineering structures for vortical cross-step filtration
Sanderson, S.L.; Roberts, E.; Lineburg, J.; Brooks, H. (2016). Fish mouths as engineering structures for vortical cross-step filtration. Nature Comm. 7(11092): 9 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11092
In: Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2041-1723; e-ISSN 2041-1723, more
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- Sanderson, S.L.
- Roberts, E.
- Lineburg, J.
- Brooks, H.
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| Abstract |
Suspension-feeding fishes such as goldfish and whale sharks retain prey without clogging their oral filters, whereas clogging is a major expense in industrial crossflow filtration of beer, dairy foods and biotechnology products. Fishes’ abilities to retain particles that are smaller than the pore size of the gill-raker filter, including extraction of particles despite large holes in the filter, also remain unexplained. Here we show that unexplored combinations of engineering structures (backward-facing steps forming d-type ribs on the porous surface of a cone) cause fluid dynamic phenomena distinct from current biological and industrial filter operations. This vortical cross-step filtration model prevents clogging and explains the transport of tiny concentrated particles to the oesophagus using a hydrodynamic tongue. Mass transfer caused by vortices along d-type ribs in crossflow is applicable to filter-feeding duck beak lamellae and whale baleen plates, as well as the fluid mechanics of ventilation at fish gill filaments. |
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