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Life in Moving Fluids

Name: Life in Moving Fluids
Author: Steven Vogel

The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Steven Vogel

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Life in Moving Fluids

The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Steven Vogel

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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.

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Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2020

ISBN

9780691212975

Edition

Topic

Scienze biologiche

Subtopic

Biologia

WHAT 

IS

A

FLUID?

(a)

(b)

FIGURE

2.5. 

The

microcrustacean 

water 

flea,

Daphnia:

(a)

the

warm-

water 

form; 

(b)

the

cold-water 

form.

At

the

very 

least, 

one

ought 

not

attribute 

some 

decrease 

in

activity 

of

an

aquatic 

organism 

at

low

temperature 

to

reduction 

in

metabolic 

rate 

with-

out

checking 

to

see

if

an

increase 

in

viscosity

is

contributory; 

the

results 

of

Podolsky 

and

Emlet 

(1993) 

on

swimming 

speeds 

of

sand 

dollar 

larvae 

cer-

tainly 

make 

that 

point. 

But

we're 

getting 

ahead 

of

ourselves—less

ex

cathe-

dra

treatment 

of

each 

of

these 

cases 

requires 

that 

additional 

physical 

mate-

rial 

be

developed, 

which 

will 

happen 

for

pipes 

and

blood

flow

in

Chapters

13

and

14,

for

filter-feeding 

and

sinking 

plankton 

in

Chapter 

15.

31

Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the New Edition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Remarks at the Start
Chapter 2. What Is a Fluid and How Much So
Chapter 3. Neither Hiding nor Crossing Streamlines
Chapter 4. Pressure and Momentum
Chapter 5. Drag, Scale, and the Reynolds Number
Chapter 6. The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems
Chapter 7. Shape and Drag: Motile Animals
Chapter 8. Velocity Gradients and Boundary Layers
Chapter 9. Life in Velocity Gradients
Chapter 10. Making and Using Vortices
Chapter 11. Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring
Chapter 12. The Thrust of Flying and Swimming
Chapter 13. Flows within Pipes and Other Structures
Chapter 14. Internal Flows in Organisms
Chapter 15. Flow at Very Low Reynolds Numbers
Chapter 16. Unsteady Flows
Chapter 17. Flow at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces
Chapter 18. Do It Yourself
List of Symbols
Bibliography and Index of Citat ions
Subject Index