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🐬 Dolphin Swimming Power: Gray's Paradox, Boundary-Layer Drag and the Strouhal Tail Beat

A dolphin circles a track under the waves: set body size, muscle power, laminar or turbulent boundary layer and Strouhal number, and watch drag, required power, tail-beat rate and terminal speed update, then test Gray's paradox numerically.

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A dolphin circles a track under the waves: set body size, muscle power, laminar or turbulent boundary layer and Strouhal number, and watch drag, required power, tail-beat rate and terminal speed update, then test Gray's paradox numerically.

DolphinDragBoundary LayerStrouhal NumberBiomechanicsThree.jsBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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