Ebook: Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding

This volume developed from a Workshop on Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding which was held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota, from June 1-5, 2010. The subject matter ranged widely from observational data to theoretical mechanics, and reflected the broad scope of the workshop. In both the prepared presentations and in the informal discussions, the workshop engaged exchanges across disciplines and invited a lively interaction between modelers and observers.

The articles in this volume were invited and fully refereed. They provide a representative if necessarily incomplete account of the field of natural locomotion during a period of rapid growth and expansion. The papers presented at the workshop, and the contributions to the present volume, can be roughly divided into those pertaining to swimming on the scale of marine organisms, swimming of microorganisms at low Reynolds numbers, animal flight, and sliding and other related examples of locomotion.

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KEY BENEFIT: From low-speed through hypersonic flight, this book merges fundamental fluid mechanics, experimental techniques, and computational fluid dynamics techniques to build a solid foundation in aerodynamic applications. Many references are recent publications by the world’s finest aerodynamicists with expertise in subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aerodynamics. KEY TOPICS: Starts the new edition with a fun, readable, and motivational presentation on aircraft performance using material on Specific Excess Power (taught to all cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy). Adds new sections to later chapters, presenting new real-world applications. Includes a CD-ROMwith Excel spreadsheets to solve a wide range of problems showing simple CFD applications, experimental correlations, and more. A useful reference for professionals in the aeronautics industry Part. 1. INVITED PAPERS -- Model Problems for Fish Schooling / Silas Alben -- The Challenge of Understanding and Quantifying Fish Responses to Turbulence-Dominated Physical Environments / Aline J. Cotel and Paul W. Webb -- The Fluid Dynamics of Feeding In the Upside-Down Jellyfish / Christina Hamlet, Laura A. Miller, Terry Rodriguez and Arvind Santhanakrishnan -- Kinetic Models for Biologically Active Suspensions / David Saintillan -- Individual to Collective Dynamics of Swimming Bacteria / Luis H. Cisneros, Sujoy Ganguly, Raymond E. Goldstein and John O. Kessler -- Dynamics, Control, and Stabilization of Turning Flight in Fruit Flies / Leif Ristroph, Attila J. Bergou, Gordon J. Berman, John Guckenheimer and Z. Jane Wang, et al. -- Geometric Mechanics, Dynamics, and Control of Fishlike Swimming in a Planar Ideal Fluid / Scott David Kelly, Parthesh Pujari and Hailong Xiong -- Slithering Locomotion / David L. Hu and Michael Shelley. Part 2. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- Shark Skin Boundary Layer Control / Amy Lang, Philip Motta, Maria Laura Habegger and Robert Hueter -- Numerical Modeling of the Performance of Ray Fins in Fish Locomotion / Qiang Zhu and Kourosh Shoele -- Formation of Ocean Surface Patterns by Cetacean Fluke Oscillations / Rachel Levy and David Uminsky -- Unsolved Problems in the Locomotion of Mammalian Sperm / Susan S. Suarez -- Computing optimal Strokes for Low Reynolds Number Swimmers / Antonio Desimone, Luca Heltai, FranÇois Alouges and Aline Lefebvre-Lepot -- Models of Low Reynolds Number Swimmers Inspired by Cell Blebbing / Qixuan Wang, Jifeng Hu and Hans Othmer -- A Low-Reynolds-Number Treadmilling Swimmer Near a Semi-infinite Wall / Kiori Obuse and Jean-Luc Thiffeault -- Cilia Induced Bending of Paramecium in Microchannels / Saikat Jana, Junil Kim, Sung Yang and Sunghwan Jung -- Rheology of Sheared Bacterial Suspensions / Zhenlu Cui and Xiao-Ming Zeng -- A User-Friendly Formulation of the Newtonian Dynamics for the Coupled Wing-Body System in Insect Flight / Sheng Xu -- Efficient Flapping Flight Using Flexible Wings Oscillating at Resonance / Hassan Masoud and Alexander Alexeev -- Stability of Passive Locomotion in Periodically-Generated Vortex Wakes / Babak G. Oskouei and Eva Kanso -- Simulating Vortex Wakes of Flapping Plates / J. X. Sheng, A. Ysasi, D. Kolomenskiy, E. Kanso and M. Nitsche, et al. -- A Velocity Decomposition Approach for Solving the Immersed Interface Problem with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions / Anita T. Layton -- Elliptic Regularization and the Solvability of Self-Propelled Locomotion Problems / Adam Boucher -- Comparative Studies Reveal Principles of Movement on and Within Granular Media / Yang Ding, Nick Gravish, Chen Li, Ryan D. Maladen and Nicole Mazouchova, et al