Prediction of forced ventilation in animal fur from a measured pressure distribution.
A model and computation scheme are given for predicting forced ventilation in the fur on an animal limb or torso, modelled here as a fur-covered cylinder with the hairs erect. The intra-fur flow is described by an anisotropic Darcy model, and pressure distribution measured previously for flow past a solid cylinder at Reynolds number 1.29 x 10(5) is used for the outer flow. Calculations from the model are presented for five mammalian species.
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Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.
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D000818:Animals; D016880:Anisotropy; D003670:Deer; D006197:Hair / Q000502:physiology*; D007614:Macropodidae; D008954:Models, Biological; D009893:Opossums; D010542:Peromyscus; D011312:Pressure; D012589:Sciuridae; D014691:Ventilation; D014919:Wind