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- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface to the New Edition ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Chapter 1. Remarks at the Start 1
- Chapter 2. What Is a Fluid and How Much So 16
- Chapter 3. Neither Hiding nor Crossing Streamlines 32
- Chapter 4. Pressure and Momentum 50
- Chapter 5. Drag, Scale, and the Reynolds Number 81
- Chapter 6. The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems 106
- Chapter 7. Shape and Drag: Motile Animals 132
- Chapter 8. Velocity Gradients and Boundary Layers 156
- Chapter 9. Life in Velocity Gradients 174
- Chapter 10. Making and Using Vortices 204
- Chapter 11. Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring 230
- Chapter 12. The Thrust of Flying and Swimming 262
- Chapter 13. Flows within Pipes and Other Structures 290
- Chapter 14. Internal Flows in Organisms 308
- Chapter 15. Flow at Very Low Reynolds Numbers 331
- Chapter 16. Unsteady Flows 362
- Chapter 17. Flow at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces 378
- Chapter 18. Do It Yourself 398
- List of Symbols 403
- Bibliography and Index of Citations 407
- Subject Index 441
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface to the New Edition ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Chapter 1. Remarks at the Start 1
- Chapter 2. What Is a Fluid and How Much So 16
- Chapter 3. Neither Hiding nor Crossing Streamlines 32
- Chapter 4. Pressure and Momentum 50
- Chapter 5. Drag, Scale, and the Reynolds Number 81
- Chapter 6. The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems 106
- Chapter 7. Shape and Drag: Motile Animals 132
- Chapter 8. Velocity Gradients and Boundary Layers 156
- Chapter 9. Life in Velocity Gradients 174
- Chapter 10. Making and Using Vortices 204
- Chapter 11. Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring 230
- Chapter 12. The Thrust of Flying and Swimming 262
- Chapter 13. Flows within Pipes and Other Structures 290
- Chapter 14. Internal Flows in Organisms 308
- Chapter 15. Flow at Very Low Reynolds Numbers 331
- Chapter 16. Unsteady Flows 362
- Chapter 17. Flow at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces 378
- Chapter 18. Do It Yourself 398
- List of Symbols 403
- Bibliography and Index of Citations 407
- Subject Index 441