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The physical principles of swimming and flying in animals are intriguingly different from those of ships and airplanes. The study of animal locomotion therefore holds a special place not only at the frontiers of pure fluid dynamics research, but also in the applied field of biomimetics, which aims to emulate salient aspects of the performance and function of living organisms. For example, fluid dynamic loads are so significant for swimming fish that they are expected to have developed efficient flow control procedures through the evolutionary process of adaptation by natural selection, which might in turn be applied to the design of robotic swimmers. And yet, sharply contrasting views as to the energetic efficiency of oscillatory propulsion – especially for marine animals – demand a careful assessment of the forces and energy expended at realistic Reynolds numbers. For this and many other research questions, an experimental approach is often the most appropriate methodology. This holds as much for flying animals as it does for swimming ones, and similar experimental challenges apply – studying tethered as opposed to free locomotion, or studying the flow around robotic models as opposed to real animals. This book provides a wide-ranging snapshot of the state-of-the-art in experimental research on the physics of swimming and flying animals. The resulting picture reflects not only upon the questions that are of interest in current pure and applied research, but also upon the experimental techniques that are available to answer them.
Animal flight. --- Animal locomotion. --- Animal swimming. --- Biophysics. --- Hydrodynamics. --- Animal swimming --- Animal flight --- Animal locomotion --- Hydrodynamics --- Biophysics --- Animal mechanics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Applied Mathematics --- Applied Physics --- Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Animal mechanics. --- Animal movements (Physiology) --- Body mechanics, Animal --- Movements of animals (Physiology) --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Physics. --- Fluids. --- Biological physics. --- Fluid mechanics. --- Fluid- and Aerodynamics. --- Engineering Fluid Dynamics. --- Biophysics and Biological Physics. --- Biomechanics --- Locomotion --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Biological physics --- Biology --- Medical sciences --- Physics --- Hydromechanics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mechanics --- Hydrostatics --- Permeability
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