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Swimming and Flying in Nature

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    Chapter 1 Aerodynamic Aspects of Animal Flight
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    Chapter 2 Muscular and Energetic Aspects of Fish Swimming
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    Chapter 3 The Response of Fish to Shearing Surfaces in the Water
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    Chapter 4 The Forces Resisting Locomotion in Bluefish
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    Chapter 5 Speed, Power, And Drag Measurements of Dolphins and Porpoises
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    Chapter 6 Efficiency of Pectoral-Fin Propulsion of Cymatogaster Aggregata
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    Chapter 7 Hydrodynamics of the Body of Dytiscus Marginalis (Dytiscidae, Coleoptera)
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    Chapter 8 Swimming Energetics of the Larval Anchovy
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    Chapter 9 Swimming of Planktonic Cyclops Species (Copepoda, Crustacea): Pattern, Movements and Their Control
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    Chapter 10 Hydromechanical Aspects of Fish Swimming
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    Chapter 11 Lunate-Tail Swimming Propulsion
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    Chapter 12 Laminar Boundary-Layer Development and Transition of Fish-Shaped Bodies of Revolution
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    Chapter 13 Hydrodynamic Drag Reduction Due to Fish Slimes
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    Chapter 14 The Swimming of Slender Fish-Like Bodies in Waves
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    Chapter 15 Extraction of Flow Energy by Fish and Birds in a Wavy Stream
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    Chapter 16 Some Hydrodynamical Aspects of Fish Schooling
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    Chapter 17 Experimental Studies of Human Swimming at the Netherlands Ship Model Basin
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    Chapter 18 Flapping Flight and Power in Birds and Insects, Conventional and Novel Mechanisms
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    Chapter 19 Hovering Flight of the Dragonfly Aeschna Juncea L ., Kinematics and Aerodynamics
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    Chapter 20 Non-Steady-State Aerodynamics of the Flight of Encarsia Formosa
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    Chapter 21 Aerodynamic Forces and Their Calculation in Insect Flight
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    Chapter 22 On the Mechanics of Flight of Small Insects
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    Chapter 23 Insect Aerodynamics Near Hovering
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    Chapter 24 Air Flow and the Flight of a Noctuid Moth
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    Chapter 25 Aerodynamics and Energetics of Vertebrate Fliers
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    Chapter 26 Hovering Flight in the Pied Flycatcher ( Ficedula Hypoleuca )
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    Chapter 27 Flight Metabolism of Flying Foxes
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    Chapter 28 On the Efficiency Increasing Interaction of Thrust Producing Lifting Surfaces
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    Chapter 29 A Note on Flapping Flight with Surging
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    Chapter 30 Bird Aerodynamic Experiments
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    Chapter 31 The Effect of Span-Wise Variations in Amplitude on the Thrust-Generating Performance of a Flapping Thin Wing
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    Chapter 32 Soaring Birds as “Maxwell Demons”
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    Chapter 33 Ornithopter Aerodynamic Experiments
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Title
Swimming and Flying in Nature
Published by
Springer US, April 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-1326-8
ISBNs
978-1-4757-1328-2, 978-1-4757-1326-8
Editors

Wu, Theodore Y.-T., Brokaw, Charles J., Brennen, Christopher

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Unknown 14 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 21%
Student > Postgraduate 2 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Student > Master 1 7%
Other 3 21%
Unknown 3 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 21%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 14%
Engineering 2 14%
Mathematics 1 7%
Sports and Recreations 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 4 29%