...Ian K. Bartol; Morteza Gharib; Paul W. Webb; Daniel Weihs; Malcolm S. Gordon SUMMARY Boxfishes (Teleostei: Ostraciidae) are marine fishes having rigid carapaces that vary significantly among taxa in their shapes and structural ornamentation. We showed previously that the keels of the carapace...

... intensified posteriorly and as angles of attack deviated from 0°. Pressure distribution results were consistent with the DPIV findings, with areas of low pressure correlating well with regions of attached, concentrated vorticity. Lift coefficients of boxfish models were similar to lift coefficients of delta...

...J. R. Hove; L. M. O’Bryan; M. S. Gordon; P. W. Webb; D. Weihs ABSTRACT Swimming movements in boxfishes were much more complex and varied than classical descriptions indicated. At low to moderate rectilinear swimming speeds (<5 TL s −1 , where TL is total body length), they were entirely median...

...Jeffrey A. Walker ABSTRACT Whether a rigid body limits maneuverability depends on how maneuverability is defined. By the current definition, the minimum radius of the turn, a rigid-bodied, spotted boxfish Ostracion meleagris approaches maximum maneuverability, i.e. it can spin around with minimum...