Natural Locomotion In Fluids And On Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, And Sliding (the Ima Volumes In Mathematics And Its Applications)
by Stephen Childress /
2012 / English / PDF
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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.
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.