{"id":241786,"date":"2010-01-28T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2010-01-28T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:00:04","slug":"ncbi-rofl-heat-loss-in-dumbo-a-theoretical-approach-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/241786","title":{"rendered":"NCBI ROFL: Heat loss in Dumbo: a theoretical approach. | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6269 alignleft\" title=\"dumbo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/01\/dumbo2.jpg\" alt=\"dumbo\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A flat plate model was used to calculate heat loss from the pinnae [outer ears] of the animated elephant Dumbo.\u00a0<span id=\"more-6177\"><\/span> In conditions of high wind velocity and large gradients, Dumbo could potentially dissipate more heat than he produces. This suggests that he may need the large ears to help lose the excess heat produced while flying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11163927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6178\" title=\"dumbo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/01\/dumbo.jpg\" alt=\"dumbo\" width=\"470\" height=\"176\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: flickr\/<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hairgeek\/2736105415\/\">hairgeek<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/expressmonorail\/3038125365\/\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/amfgN748OmE--6zqDzFqVTZ2upo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/amfgN748OmE--6zqDzFqVTZ2upo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/amfgN748OmE--6zqDzFqVTZ2upo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/amfgN748OmE--6zqDzFqVTZ2upo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/a7A-sJkw9Ac\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A flat plate model was used to calculate heat loss from the pinnae [outer ears] of the animated elephant Dumbo.\u00a0 In conditions of high wind velocity and large gradients, Dumbo could potentially dissipate more heat than he produces. This suggests that he may need the large ears to help lose the excess heat produced while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}