TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baumgartner, Werner
A1  - Fidler, Florian
A1  - Weth, Agnes
A1  - Habbecke, Martin
A1  - Jakob, Peter
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Böhme, Wolfgang
T1  - Investigating the locomotion of the sandfish in desert sand using NMR-Imaging
JF  - PLOS ONE
N2  - The sandfish (Scincus scincus) is a lizard having the remarkable ability to move through desert sand for significant distances. It is well adapted to living in loose sand by virtue of a combination of morphological and behavioural specializations. We investigated the bodyform of the sandfish using 3D-laserscanning and explored its locomotion in loose desert sand using fast nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging. The sandfish exhibits an in-plane meandering motion with a frequency of about 3 Hz and an amplitude of about half its body length accompanied by swimming-like (or trotting) movements of its limbs. No torsion of the body was observed, a movement required for a digging-behaviour. Simple calculations based on the Janssen model for granular material related to our findings on bodyform and locomotor behaviour render a local decompaction of the sand surrounding the moving sandfish very likely. Thus the sand locally behaves as a viscous fluid and not as a solid material. In this fluidised sand the sandfish is able to “swim” using its limbs.
KW  - magnetic resonance imaging
KW  - body limbs
KW  - swimming
KW  - lizards
KW  - deserts
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003309
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 3
IS  - 10
PB  - Plos
CY  - San Francisco, California, US
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fleischhaker, Robert
A1  - Evers, Jörg
T1  - Four-wave mixing enhanced white-light cavity
JF  - Physical Review A - Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 0556-2791
VL  - 78
IS  - 5
SP  - 051802(R)
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fleischhaker, Robert
A1  - Evers, Jörg
T1  - Nonlinear effects in pulse propagation through Doppler-broadened closed-loop atomic media
JF  - Physical Review A - Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043805
SN  - 1050-2947
VL  - 77
IS  - 4
SP  - 043805
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mahmoudi, Mohammad
A1  - Fleischhaker, Robert
A1  - Sahrai, Mostafa
A1  - Evers, Jörg
T1  - Group velocity control in the ultraviolet domain via interacting dark-state resonances
JF  - Journal of physics B: Atomic, molecular and optical physics
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/41/2/025504
SN  - 0953-4075
SN  - 1361-6455
VL  - 41
IS  - 2
SP  - 25504
EP  - 25600
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Gellert, Christoph
A1  - Kranzler, Thomas
T1  - Pseudo-dynamische Versuche an Reihenmittelhäusern – Vergleich mit aktuellen Berechnungsansätzen
JF  - Mauerwerk : European journal of masonry
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dama.200800397
SN  - 1437-1022 (E-Journal); 1432-3427 (Print)
VL  - Volume 12
IS  - Issue 6
SP  - 315
EP  - 326
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mottaghy, Darius
A1  - Vosteen, Hans-Dieter
A1  - Schellschmidt, Rüdiger
T1  - Temperature dependence of the relationship of thermal diffusivity versus thermal conductivity for crystalline rocks
JF  - International Journal of Earth Sciences
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-007-0238-3
SN  - 1437-3262
VL  - 97
IS  - 2
SP  - 435
EP  - 442
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baier, C.
A1  - Mottaghy, Darius
A1  - Ziegler, M.
A1  - Rath, V.
T1  - Numerische Simulation des Gefrierprozesses  bei der Baugrundvereisung im durchströmten Untergrund
JF  - Bauingenieur
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 0005-6650
VL  - 83
IS  - 2
SP  - 49
EP  - 60
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jungbluth, Christian
A1  - Borchert, Jörg
T1  - Möglichkeiten der Strompreisbeeinflussung im oligopolistischen Markt
JF  - ZNER Zeitschrift für Neues Energierecht
Y1  - 2008
IS  - 4
SP  - 314
EP  - 323
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pieper, Martin
T1  - Nonlinear integral equations for an inverse electromagnetic scattering problem
JF  - Journal of Physics Conference Series. 124 (2008)
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 1742-6596
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pieper, Martin
A1  - Ivanyshyn, Olha
T1  - Nonlinear integral equations for a 3D inverse acoustic scattering problem : abstract / O. Ivanyshyn and M. Pieper
Y1  - 2008
N1  - World Congress on Computational Mechanics <8, 2008, Venedig> ; European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering <5, 2008, Venedig>
ER  -