Special Issue: Biofluiddynamics—In Memory of Sir James Lighthill

✍ Scribed by Shay Gueron

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 20 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0170-4214
• DOI: 10.1002/mma.320

✦ Synopsis

Special Issue Bio uiddynamics-In Memory of Sir James Lighthill

This themed issue is based mostly upon presentations given at the international workshop on Bio uiddynamics, in memory of Sir James Lighthill.

Sir James Lighthill was truly an outstanding scientist-one of the giants of this century in uid mechanics and other topics, and created the ÿeld of Bio uiddynamics. He passed away in his usual amboyant style, swimming around an island in the English Channel.

Some of the world renown experts in the ÿeld-biologists, zoologists, engineers, and mathematicians-were invited to present their work, to give special tutorials, and to provide a common stage for the exchange of ideas between specialists from di erent aspects of Bio uiddynamics, namely high and low Reynolds numbers. The workshop was an excellent opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and young researchers to learn about new advances in the ÿeld, as well as about research problems that still need to be pursued.