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Life in Moving Fluids Steven Vogel

Life in Moving Fluids By Steven Vogel

Life in Moving Fluids by Steven Vogel


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Addresses biologists and general readers interested in biological fluid mechanics. This title discusses the relationship between fluid flow and biological design and includes sections on jet propulsion, biological pumps, swimming, blood flow, and surface waves, and on acceleration reaction and Murray's law.

Life in Moving Fluids Summary

Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Steven Vogel

Both a landmark text and reference book, Steven Vogel's Life in Moving Fluids has also played a catalytic role in research involving the applications of fluid mechanics to biology. In this revised edition, Vogel continues to combine humor and clear explanations as he addresses biologists and general readers interested in biological fluid mechanics, offering updates on the field over the last dozen years and expanding the coverage of the biological literature. His discussion of the relationship between fluid flow and biological design now includes sections on jet propulsion, biological pumps, swimming, blood flow, and surface waves, and on acceleration reaction and Murray's law. This edition contains an extensive bibliography for readers interested in designing their own experiments.

Life in Moving Fluids 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

About Steven Vogel

Steven Vogel is James B. Duke Professor in the Department of Zoology at Duke University. He is the author of Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants (Princeton), for which he won the Jean and Irving Stone Science Writing Award, and Vital Circuits: A Popular Account of Circulatory Systems.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New EditionAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Remarks at the Start3Ch. 2What Is a Fluid and How Much So16Ch. 3Neither Hiding nor Crossing Streamlines32Ch. 4Pressure and Momentum50Ch. 5Drag, Scale, and the Reynolds Number81Ch. 6The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems106Ch. 7Shape and Drag: Motile Animals132Ch. 8Velocity Gradients and Boundary Layers156Ch. 9Life in Velocity Gradients174Ch. 10Making and Using Vortices204Ch. 11Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring230Ch. 12The Thrust of Flying and Swimming262Ch. 13Flows within Pipes and Other Structures290Ch. 14Internal Flows in Organisms308Ch. 15Flow at Very Low Reynolds Numbers331Ch. 16Unsteady Flows362Ch. 17Flow at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces378Ch. 18Do It Yourself398List of Symbols403Bibliography and Index of Citations407Subject Index441

Additional information

GOR001859377
9780691026169
0691026165
Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Steven Vogel
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Princeton University Press
19960421
488
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