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Manta Rays Could Teach Us a Thing or Two About Effective Filtration (7 of 9)

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Manta Rays Could Teach Us a Thing or Two About Effective Filtration (7 of 9)

video: Fluid flow over a manta filter in wing configuration showing captive vortices (starts at 4 sec in). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 26, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.V. Divi at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Manta rays feed using ricochet separation, a novel nonclogging filtration mechanism." view more 

Credit: Raj Divi


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