Mechanics of swimming and flying /

Mechanics of swimming and flying /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Childress, Stephen
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Description:	x, 155 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in mathematical biology
Subject:	Animal flight -- Mathematical models. Animal swimming -- Mathematical models. Fluid dynamics -- Mathematical models Navier-Stokes equations Animal flight -- Mathematical models. Animal swimming -- Mathematical models. Fluid dynamics -- Mathematical models. Navier-Stokes equations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/441194

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ISBN:	0521236134 0521280710 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes index. Bibliography: p. [149]-152.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. General considerations
2. The Stokesian realm
3. Swimming of a sheet
4. The biology of low-Reynolds-number locomotion
5. Resistive-force theory of flagellar propulsion
6. Analysis of the flagellum
7. Ciliary propulsion
8. The Eulerian realm: the inertial force
9. The Eulerian realm: the vortex force
10. The swimming of fish
11. Some aspects of the aerodynamics of birds and insects
12. Interactions
References
Index