Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces - Swimming, Flying, and Sliding (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)

This volume developed from a Workshop on Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding which was held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota, from June 1-5, 2010. The subject matter ranged widely from observational data to theoretical mechanics, and reflected the broad scope of the workshop. In both the prepared presentations and in the informal discussions, the workshop engaged exchanges across disciplines and invited a lively interaction between modelers and observers. The articles in this volume were invited and fully refereed. They provide a representative if necessarily incomplete account of the field of natural locomotion during a period of rapid growth and expansion. The papers presented at the workshop, and the contributions to the present volume, can be roughly divided into those pertaining to swimming on the scale of marine organisms, swimming of microorganisms at low Reynolds numbers, animal flight, and sliding and other related examples of locomotion.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 155
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Stephen Childress • Anette Hosoi • William W. Schultz • Jane Wang
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
Edition:	2012 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4614-3996-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Numerical analysis Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > Fluid mechanics Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal behaviour
LSN:	1-4614-3996-5
Barcode:	9781461439967

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