What Physicists Can Learn from Shark Intestines (IMAGE)

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What Physicists Can Learn from Shark Intestines

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Different kinds of sharks have intestines with different spiral patterns that favor fluid flow in one direction. Ido Levin and colleagues are recreating those shapes using a 3D printer in order to study the unique fluid flow inside the spirals

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Image courtesy of Ido Levin.

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