Fluid dynamics in biology : proceedings of an AMSIMSSIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held July 612, 1991 with support from the National Science Foundation and NASA Headquarters

Contributor(s): Cheer A Y | Van Dam C PMaterial type: Computer fileComputer fileSeries: Contemporary mathematics ; v. 141Publication details: Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, c1993Description: 1 online resource (xii, 586 p. : ill.)ISBN: 9780821877326 (online)Subject(s): Biophysics | Fluid dynamics | Fluid dynamicsOnline resources: Click here to access online
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Biofluiddynamics: a survey ; Hairy little legs: Feeding, smelling, and swimming at low Reynolds numbers ; Disturbance, natural selection, and the prediction of maximal waveinduced forces ; Computational modeling of the swimming of biflagellated algal cells ; Mechanical approach toward flagellar motility ; Mechanical analysis of particle capture by rectangularmesh nets ; Fish as filters: An empirical and mathematical analysis ; Computational biofluid dynamics ; Acoustic streaming in the ear itself ; Computation of incompressible viscous flows through artificial heart devices with moving boundaries ; An implicit numerical method for fluid dynamics problems with immersed elastic boundaries ; Continuum models of platelet aggregation: Mechanical properties and chemicallyinduced phase transitions ; Surfacetension instabilities of liquidlined elastic tubes ; Dynamic flow in the nephron: Filtered delay in the TGF pathway ; A new finitedifference scheme and its application to flows in stenosed arteries ; On aerodynamics and the energetics of vertebrate flapping flight ; On the significance of unsteady effects in the aerodynamic performance of flying animals ; Mechanics and energetics of ground effect in flapping flight ; Stability of aquatic animal locomotion ; Lift and drag calculations for wings and tails: Techniques and applications ; Flow in large blood vessels ; The mechanics of blood flow in capillaries ; Unsteady flow in a curved pipe ; Optimality in Biological Fluid Transport Systems James Lighthill ; M A R Koehl ; Mark W Denny ; Lisa J Fauci ; Masatoshi Murase ; Catherine Loudon and Donald N Alstad ; S Laurie Sanderson and A Y Cheer ; Charles S Peskin and David M McQueen ; James Lighthill ; Cetin Kiris Stuart Rogers Dochan Kwak and IDee Chang ; Anita A Mayo and Charles S Peskin ; Aaron L Fogelson ; D Halpern and J B Grotberg ; E Bruce Pitman H E Layton and Leon C Moore ; H Huang V J Modi and B R Seymour ; Jeremy M V Rayner ; G R Spedding ; H de la Cueva and R W Blake ; Daniel Weihs ; C P van Dam K Nikfetrat and P M H W Vijgen ; Stanley A Berger ; T W Secomb ; Clement G Yam and Harry A Dwyer ; Michael Labarbera
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Contains most of the papers that were presented at the Conference on Biofluiddynamics, which was held July 612, 1991 at the University of Washington, SeattlePref.

Includes bibliographical references.

Biofluiddynamics: a survey ; Hairy little legs: Feeding, smelling, and swimming at low Reynolds numbers ; Disturbance, natural selection, and the prediction of maximal waveinduced forces ; Computational modeling of the swimming of biflagellated algal cells ; Mechanical approach toward flagellar motility ; Mechanical analysis of particle capture by rectangularmesh nets ; Fish as filters: An empirical and mathematical analysis ; Computational biofluid dynamics ; Acoustic streaming in the ear itself ; Computation of incompressible viscous flows through artificial heart devices with moving boundaries ; An implicit numerical method for fluid dynamics problems with immersed elastic boundaries ; Continuum models of platelet aggregation: Mechanical properties and chemicallyinduced phase transitions ; Surfacetension instabilities of liquidlined elastic tubes ; Dynamic flow in the nephron: Filtered delay in the TGF pathway ; A new finitedifference scheme and its application to flows in stenosed arteries ; On aerodynamics and the energetics of vertebrate flapping flight ; On the significance of unsteady effects in the aerodynamic performance of flying animals ; Mechanics and energetics of ground effect in flapping flight ; Stability of aquatic animal locomotion ; Lift and drag calculations for wings and tails: Techniques and applications ; Flow in large blood vessels ; The mechanics of blood flow in capillaries ; Unsteady flow in a curved pipe ; Optimality in Biological Fluid Transport Systems James Lighthill ; M A R Koehl ; Mark W Denny ; Lisa J Fauci ; Masatoshi Murase ; Catherine Loudon and Donald N Alstad ; S Laurie Sanderson and A Y Cheer ; Charles S Peskin and David M McQueen ; James Lighthill ; Cetin Kiris Stuart Rogers Dochan Kwak and IDee Chang ; Anita A Mayo and Charles S Peskin ; Aaron L Fogelson ; D Halpern and J B Grotberg ; E Bruce Pitman H E Layton and Leon C Moore ; H Huang V J Modi and B R Seymour ; Jeremy M V Rayner ; G R Spedding ; H de la Cueva and R W Blake ; Daniel Weihs ; C P van Dam K Nikfetrat and P M H W Vijgen ; Stanley A Berger ; T W Secomb ; Clement G Yam and Harry A Dwyer ; Michael Labarbera

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