Life in Moving Fluids
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Life in Moving Fluids

The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Life in Moving Fluids

The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition

About this book

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
Print ISBN
9780691026169
9780691034850
Edition
2
eBook ISBN
9780691212975
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences
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

Table of contents

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

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