Articles tagged: gyre
- Practice
Water flow in practice — pumps, placement and dead zones
The turnover rate myth debunked, flow's five biological functions, species-specific needs, gyre setup, dead zone diagnosis and coral behaviour as a flow indicator.
- Deep dive
The physics of water flow — from the boundary layer to cilia
Diffusive boundary layer as a bottleneck, Shapiro 2014 ciliary paradigm, colony morphology as a flow modifier, gyre hydrodynamics and open research questions.
- Basics
Flow is a biological necessity
Why turnover rate is the wrong metric, how to measure flow velocity in cm/s, the gyre principle and species-specific flow requirements.