A flounder's disappearing act explained
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 15:30
in Earth & Climate
Simply oscillating its fins is all a flounder, a flat fish, needs to do to resuspend sand and quickly disappear beneath it to hide. By discovering the physics at play, researchers are hoping to provide a new flounder-inspired solution to a common technological challenge: the resuspension of granular material within a fluid.