Why most fish has scales, does the shape of the scales morph? Does it change the fluid flow properties?

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Filippo Maria Denaro

The placoid scales in sharks were well studied since demonstrated able to reduce the drag. Of course several different scales exist.

Have a look to this paper Article Bionic Research on Fish Scales for Drag Reduction

Daniel Ahmed

Dear Prof. Denaro,

This is very interesting, thank you so much for your suggestion, I am looking into it.

Regards,

Daniel

Manigandan Sekar

Sir

we already studied this part by incorporating them in the airfoil.

Experiment Evaluation of Skin Friction Drag by Surface Tailoring