Fluid dynamics in biology : proceedings of an AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held July 6-12, 1991 with support from the National Science Foundation and NASA Headquarters /
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| Imprint: | Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, c1993. |
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| Description: | xii, 586 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary mathematics ; 141 Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) v. 140. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1459544 |
Table of Contents:
- Biofluiddynamics: A survey
- Hairy little legs: Feeding, smelling, and swimming at low Reynolds numbers
- Disturbance, natural selection, and the prediction of maximal wave-induced forces
- Computational modeling of the swimming of biflagellated algal cells
- Mechanical approach toward flagellar motility
- Mechanical analysis of particle capture by rectangular-mesh nets
- Fish as filters: An empirical and mathematical analysis
- Computational biofluid dynamics
- Acoustic streaming in the ear itself
- Computation of incompressible viscous flows through artificial heart devices with moving boundaries
- An implicit numerical method for fluid dynamics problems with immersed elastic boundaries
- Continuum models of platelet aggregation: Mechanical properties and chemically-induced phase transitions
- Surface-tension instabilities of liquid-lined elastic tubes
- Dynamic flow in the nephron: Filtered delay in the TGF pathway
- A new finite-difference scheme and its application to flows in stenosed arteries
- On aerodynamics and the energetics of vertebrate flapping flight
- On the significance of unsteady effects in the aerodynamic performance of flying animals
- Mechanics and energetics of ground effect in flapping flight
- Stability of aquatic animal locomotion
- Lift and drag calculations for wings and tails: Techniques and applications
- Flow in large blood vessels
- The mechanics of blood flow in capillaries
- Unsteady flow in a curved pipe
- Optimality in biological fluid transport systems
