A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Based Method for Assessing the Hydrodynamic Impact of Animal Borne Data Loggers on Host Marine Mammals
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 139
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1111/mms.12540
- Title of journal
- Marine Mammal Science
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- First page
- 364
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0824-0469
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Animal-borne instruments (ABI) are essential research tools for ecologists, physiologists and oceanographers but can affect animal behaviour/energetics, compromising data validity and animal welfare/survival. Quantification/reduction of ABI impact is dependent on understanding dynamic forces on the animal, influenced by ABI-induced laminar-turbulent transition. This work is the first to consider these effects in depth, providing a novel method for assessing ABI impact. It has been used to redesign an existing ABI (http://www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/Instrumentation/GPSPhoneTag/) for use in seal ABI deployments worldwide. It allows researchers and commercial users to quantify/minimise ABI impact and evidence this to animal ethics/welfare bodies.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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