Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces - Swimming, Flying, and Sliding

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephen Childress (Editor), Anett Hosoi (Editor), Anette Hosoi (Editor), William W. Schultz (Editor), William W Schultz et al (Editor), Jane Wang (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781489999160
• ISBN: 978-1-4899-9916-0
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 17 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 316 p.
• Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications; The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; C, Kybernetik und Systemtheorie, Mathematics and Statistics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Systems Theory, Control, Fluid mechanics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Fluids, Numerical analysis, Biomathematics, Mathematical and Computational Biology, System Theory, Cybernetics & systems theory