<p>The physical principles of swimming and flying in animals are intriguingly different from those of ships and airplanes. The study of animal locomotion therefore holds a special place not only at the frontiers of pure fluid dynamics research, but also in the applied field of biomimetics, which aim
Animal Locomotion
โ Scribed by George V. Lauder (auth.), Graham K. Taylor, Michael S. Triantafyllou, Cameron Tropea (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 454
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Subjects
Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Engineering Fluid Dynamics;Biophysics and Biological Physics
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