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Fig. 4 | Zoological Letters

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From: Testing the adaptive value of gastropod shell morphology to flow: a multidisciplinary approach based on morphometrics, computational fluid dynamics and a flow tank experiment

Fig. 4

Drag forces (a), lift forces (b), lift-on-drag ratio(c) and lateral forces (d) exerted on the shell models at 0.2 m/s flow rate at the different rotation angles in the computational fluid dynamics simulations. Triangle = shell 1; square = shell 2; inversed triangle = shell 3; black = models scaled to same height as shell 1; grey = original size. Overlapping symbols were slightly displaced along the x axis to increase their visualization

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