Animal locomotion
By: Graham K. Taylor, Michael S. Triantafyllou, and Cameron Tropea (eds.).
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9783642116322
Subjects: Animal locomotion; Hydrodynamics; Animal swimming; Animal mechanics; Animal flight; Biophysics
Other titles: Experiments in fluids.; Hydrodynamics of swimming.; Physics of flying.
Notes: "This book assembles articles previously published in two special issues of Experiments in fluids: Animal locomotion : the hydrodynamics of swimming (vol. 43, no. 5, November 2007) and Animal locomotion : the physics of flying (vol. 45, no. 4, May 2009)"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The hydrodynamics of swimming. Swimming hydrodynamics : ten questions and the technical approaches needed to resolve them / George V. Lauder; title: A potential-flow, deformable-body model for fluid-structure interactions with compact vorticity : application to animal swimming measurements / Jifeng Peng, John O. Dabiri; title: Wake visualization of a heaving and pitching foil in a soap film / Florian T. Muijres, David Lentink; title: A harmonic model of hydrodynamic forces produced by a flapping fin / David N. Beal, Promode R. Bandyopadhyay; title: Flowfield measurements in the wake of a robotic lamprey / Marcus Hultmark, Megan Leftwich, Alexander J. Smits; title: Impulse generated during unsteady maneuvering of swimming fish / Brenden P. Epps, Alexandra H. Techet; title: Do trout swim better than eels? : challenges for estimating performance based on the wake of self-propelled bodies / Eric D. Tytell; title: Time resolved measurements of the flow generated by suction feeding fish / Steven W. Day, Timothy E. Higham, Peter C. Wainwright; title: Powered control mechanisms contributing to dynamically stable swimming in porcupine puffers (Teleostei: Diodon holocanthus) / Alexis M. Wiktorowicz, Dean V. Lauritzen, Malcolm S. Gordon; title: Fluid dynamics of self-propelled microorganisms, from individuals to concentrated populations / Luis H. Cisneros ... [et al.]; title: Swimming by microscopic organisms in ambient water flow / M.A.R. Koehl, Matthew A. Reidenbach; title: Water-walking devices / David L. Hu, Manu Prakash, Brian Chan, John W.M. Bush; title: Flapping flexible fish : periodic and secular body reconfigurations in swimming lamprey, Petromyzon marinus / Robert G. Root ... [et al.]; title: Vortex dynamics in the wake of a mechanical fish / Christoph Brücker, Horst Bleckmann; title: Investigation of flow mechanism of a robotic fish swimming by using flow visualization synchronized with hydrodynamic force measurement / Guang-Kun Tan ... [et al.].; title: pt. 2. The physics of flying. PIV-based investigations of animal flight / Geoffrey R. Spedding, Anders Hedenström; title: Wing-wake interaction reduces power consumption in insect tandem wings / Fritz-Olaf Lehmann; title: Experimental investigation of some aspects of insect-like flapping flight aerodynamics for application to micro air vehicles / Salman A. Ansari ... [et al.]; title: Design and development considerations for biologically inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles / Kevin D. Jones, Max F. Platzer; title: Smoke visualization of free-flying bumblebees indicates independent leading-edge vortices on each wing pair / Richard James Bomphrey, Graham K. Taylor, Adrian L.R. Thomas; title: The influence of airfoil kinematics on the formation of leading-edge vortices in bio-inspired flight / David Rival, Tim Prangemeier, Cameron Tropea; title: Wake patterns of the wings and tail of hovering hummingbirds / Douglas L. Altshuler ... [et al.]; title: Characterization of vortical structures and loads based on time-resolved PIV for asymmetric hovering flapping flight / T. Jardin, Laurent David, A. Farcy; title: Unsteady fluid-structure interactions of membrane airfoils at low Reynolds numbers / P. Rojratsirikul, Z. Wang, I. Gursul; title: Aerodynamic and functional consequences of wing compliance / Andrew M. Mountcastle, Thomas L. Daniel; title: Shallow and deep dynamic stall for flapping low Reynolds number airfoils / Michael V. Ol ... [et al.]; title: High-fidelity simulations of moving and flexible airfoils at low Reynolds numbers / Miguel R. Visbal, Raymond E. Gordnier, Marshall C. Galbraith; title: High-speed stereo DPIV measurement of wakes of two bat species flying freely in a wind tunnel / Anders Hedenström ... [et al.]; title: Time-resolved wake structure and kinematics of bat flight / Tatjana Y. Hubel ... [et al.]; title: Experimental investigation of a flapping wing model / Tatjana Y. Hubel, Cameron Tropea; title: Aerodynamics of intermittent bounds in flying birds / Bret W. Tobalske, Jason W.D. Hearn, Douglas R. Warrick; title: Experimental analysis of the flow field over a novel owl based airfoil / Stephan Klän ... [et al.]; title: The aerodynamic forces and pressure distribution of a revolving pigeon wing / James R. Usherwood.