Full disclosure: shortly after reading the first edition of this book, I began a correspondence with its author that lead to my becoming one of his graduate students at Duke. I saw and commented on most chapters of the second edition while it was being written, and my name appears in the Acknowledg
Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow
โ Scribed by Steven Vogel
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 480
- Series
- Princeton paperbacks
- Edition
- 2nd ed., rev. and expanded
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Both a landmark text and reference book, Steven Vogel's Life in Moving Fluids has also played a catalytic role in research involving the applications of fluid mechanics to biology. In this revised edition, Vogel continues to combine humor and clear explanations as he addresses biologists and general readers interested in biological fluid mechanics, offering updates on the field over the last dozen years and expanding the coverage of the biological literature. His discussion of the relationship between fluid flow and biological design now includes sections on jet propulsion, biological pumps, swimming, blood flow, and surface waves, and on acceleration reaction and Murray's law. This edition contains an extensive bibliography for readers interested in designing their own experiments. Read more... Remarks at the start -- What Is a fluid and how much so -- Neither hiding nor crossing streamlines -- Pressure and momentum -- Drag, scale, and the Reynolds number -- The drag of simple shapes and sessile systems -- Shape and drag : motile animals -- Velocity gradients -- Making and using vortices -- Lift, airfoils, gliding, and soaring -- The thrust of flying and swimming -- Flows within pipes and other structures -- Internal flows in organisms -- Flow at very low Reynolds numbers -- Unsteady flows -- Flow at fluid-fluid Interfaces -- Do it yourself
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