Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces

Swimming, Flying, and Sliding

Stephen Childress, Anette Hosoi, William W. Schultz, Jane Wang (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2014
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4899-9916-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.9.2014
Reihe/Serie	The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications ; 155
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 316 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Strömungsmechanik
Schlagworte	fluid dynamics in nature • Insect flight • model of fish schooling • Natural locomotion • newtonian dynamics of insect flight
ISBN-10	1-4899-9916-7 / 1489999167
ISBN-13	978-1-4899-9916-0 / 9781489999160
Zustand	Neuware