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Life in Moving Fluids The Physical Biology of Flow

By: S Vogel
467 pages, Figs, tabs
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  • Life in Moving Fluids ISBN: 9780691026169 Edition: 2 Paperback May 1996 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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  • Life in Moving Fluids ISBN: 9780691034850 Edition: 2 Hardback Dec 1994 Out of Print #31534
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Both a landmark text and reference book this book has also played a catalytic role in research involving the application of fluid mechanics to biology. This revised and expanded edition maintains the humour and clarity of the first edition, summarising the developments in the field in the last 12 years and expanding the coverage of the biological literature.
`Required reading for students of biology at all levels of career development.' Paul W Webb, Science.

Contents

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

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By: S Vogel
467 pages, Figs, tabs
Media reviews
Vogel ... has a deep knowledge of hydrodynamics and knows how to teach the subject. Many phenomena are explained more clearly in his book than in common fluid dynamic texts... Beautifully produced. -- Jerry Gollub Physics Today This edition includes more of everything: more physical concepts, more biological examples, more sources for additional information... Vogel finds a way to make sense of even the least intuitive concepts. -- Mike May American Scientist Praise for the previous edition: "Required reading for students of biology at all levels of career development. -- Paul W. Webb Science For biologists who want to come to the beginning of a quantitative understanding of a wide variety of adaptations, for general readers who want to see how fluid mechanics works in a varied and often surprising context ... this book, full of data, rich in up-to-date and well-appraised references, is a first-class opportunity. -- Philip Morrison Scientific American
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