Fluid dynamics in biology : proceedings of an AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held July 6-12, 1991 with support from the National Science Foundation and NASA Headquarters / / A.Y. Cheer, C.P. van Dam, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788641803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1993]; ©1993
• ISBN: 0-8218-7732-1; 0-8218-5148-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (602 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 141
• Disciplina: 574.19/1
• Soggetti: Fluid dynamics; Fluid dynamics - Mathematical models; Biophysics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Contains most of the papers that were presented at the Conference on Biofluiddynamics, which was held July 6-12, 1991 at the University of Washington, Seattle"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Sir James Lighthill""; ""Biofluiddynamics: A survey""; ""Hairy little legs: Feeding, smelling, and swimming at low Reynolds numbers""; ""Disturbance, natural selection, and the prediction of maximal wave-induced forces""; ""Computational modeling of the swimming of biflagellated algal cells""; ""Mechanical approach toward flagellar motility""; ""Mechanical analysis of particle capture by rectangular-mesh 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 chemically-induced phase transitions""; ""Surface-tension instabilities of liquid-lined elastic tubes""; ""Dynamic flow in the nephron: Filtered delay in the TGF pathway""; ""A new finite-difference 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""