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Life in moving fluids : the physical biology of flow / Steven Vogel, illustrated by Susan Tanner Beety and the author

By: Vogel, Steven, 1940-.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.Description: xiii, 467 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780691026169 (pbk.); 0691026165 (pbk.).Subject(s): Fluid mechanics | BiophysicsDDC classification: 574.191
Contents:
Preface to the New Edition. - Acknowledgments. - Ch. 1: Remarks at the Start. - Ch. 2: What Is a Fluid and How Much So. - Ch. 3: Neither Hiding nor Crossing Streamlines. - Ch. 4: Pressure and Momentum. - Ch. 5: Drag, Scale, and the Reynolds Number. - Ch. 6: The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems. - Ch. 7: Shape and Drag: Motile Animals. - Ch. 8: Velocity Gradients and Boundary Layers. - Ch. 9: Life in Velocity Gradients. - Ch. 10: Making and Using Vortices. - Ch. 11: Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring. - Ch. 12: The Thrust of Flying and Swimming. - Ch. 13: Flows within Pipes and Other Structures. - Ch. 14: Internal Flows in Organisms. - Ch. 15: Flow at Very Low Reynolds Numbers. - Ch. 16: Unsteady Flows. - Ch. 17: Flow at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces. - Ch. 18: Do It Yourself. - List of Symbols. - Bibliography and Index of Citations. - Subject Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-440) and index.

Preface to the New Edition. - Acknowledgments. - Ch. 1: Remarks at the Start. - Ch. 2: What Is a Fluid and How Much So. - Ch. 3: Neither Hiding nor Crossing Streamlines. - Ch. 4: Pressure and Momentum. - Ch. 5: Drag, Scale, and the Reynolds Number. - Ch. 6: The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems. - Ch. 7: Shape and Drag: Motile Animals. - Ch. 8: Velocity Gradients and Boundary Layers. - Ch. 9: Life in Velocity Gradients. - Ch. 10: Making and Using Vortices. - Ch. 11: Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring. - Ch. 12: The Thrust of Flying and Swimming. - Ch. 13: Flows within Pipes and Other Structures. - Ch. 14: Internal Flows in Organisms. - Ch. 15: Flow at Very Low Reynolds Numbers. - Ch. 16: Unsteady Flows. - Ch. 17: Flow at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces. - Ch. 18: Do It Yourself. - List of Symbols. - Bibliography and Index of Citations. - Subject Index.