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Fluid Dynamics in Biology
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A. Y. Cheer and C. P. van Dam, Editors
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
1993; Volume 141
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5148-7 (print); 978-0-8218-7732-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/141
MathSciNet review: 1212576
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Articles
- James Lighthill – Biofluiddynamics: a survey [MR 1212578]
- M. A. R. Koehl – Hairy little legs: Feeding, smelling, and swimming at low Reynolds numbers
- Mark W. Denny – Disturbance, natural selection, and the prediction of maximal wave-induced forces
- Lisa J. Fauci – Computational modeling of the swimming of biflagellated algal cells [MR 1212579]
- Masatoshi Murase – Mechanical approach toward flagellar motility
- Catherine Loudon and Donald N. Alstad – Mechanical analysis of particle capture by rectangular-mesh nets
- S. Laurie Sanderson and A. Y. Cheer – Fish as filters: An empirical and mathematical analysis
- Charles S. Peskin and David M. McQueen – Computational biofluid dynamics [MR 1212581]
- James Lighthill – Acoustic streaming in the ear itself [MR 1212582]
- Cetin Kiris, Stuart Rogers, Dochan Kwak and I-Dee Chang – Computation of incompressible viscous flows through artificial heart devices with moving boundaries
- Anita A. Mayo and Charles S. Peskin – An implicit numerical method for fluid dynamics problems with immersed elastic boundaries [MR 1212583]
- Aaron L. Fogelson – Continuum models of platelet aggregation: Mechanical properties and chemically-induced phase transitions
- D. Halpern and J. B. Grotberg – Surface-tension instabilities of liquid-lined elastic tubes
- E. Bruce Pitman, H. E. Layton and Leon C. Moore – Dynamic flow in the nephron: Filtered delay in the TGF pathway
- H. Huang, V. J. Modi and B. R. Seymour – A new finite-difference scheme and its application to flows in stenosed arteries
- Jeremy M. V. Rayner – On aerodynamics and the energetics of vertebrate flapping flight [MR 1212584]
- G. R. Spedding – On the significance of unsteady effects in the aerodynamic performance of flying animals
- H. de la Cueva and R. W. Blake – Mechanics and energetics of ground effect in flapping flight
- Daniel Weihs – Stability of aquatic animal locomotion
- C. P. van Dam, K. Nikfetrat and P. M. H. W. Vijgen – Lift and drag calculations for wings and tails: Techniques and applications
- Stanley A. Berger – Flow in large blood vessels [MR 1212585]
- T. W. Secomb – The mechanics of blood flow in capillaries
- Clement G. Yam and Harry A. Dwyer – Unsteady flow in a curved pipe [MR 1212586]
- Michael Labarbera – Optimality in Biological Fluid Transport Systems