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Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces

Swimming, Flying, and Sliding

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Stephen Childress

    1. Courant Institute of Math Sciences, New York University, New York City, USA

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  2. Anette Hosoi

    1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  3. William W. Schultz

    1. , Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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  4. Jane Wang

    1. , Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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Part of the book series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications (IMA, volume 155)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Invited Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. INVITED PAPERS

    1. Model Problems for Fish Schooling

      • Silas Alben
      Pages 3-13

    2. The Challenge of Understanding and Quantifying Fish Responses to Turbulence-Dominated Physical Environments

      • Aline J. Cotel, Paul W. Webb
      Pages 15-33

    3. The Fluid Dynamics of Feeding In the Upside-Down Jellyfish

      • Christina Hamlet, Laura A. Miller, Terry Rodriguez, Arvind Santhanakrishnan
      Pages 35-51

    4. Kinetic Models for Biologically Active Suspensions

      • David Saintillan
      Pages 53-71

    5. Individual to Collective Dynamics of Swimming Bacteria

      • Luis H. Cisneros, Sujoy Ganguly, Raymond E. Goldstein, John O. Kessler
      Pages 73-82

    6. Dynamics, Control, and Stabilization of Turning Flight in Fruit Flies

      • Leif Ristroph, Attila J. Bergou, Gordon J. Berman, John Guckenheimer, Z. Jane Wang, Itai Cohen
      Pages 83-99

    7. Geometric Mechanics, Dynamics, and Control of Fishlike Swimming in a Planar Ideal Fluid

      • Scott David Kelly, Parthesh Pujari, Hailong Xiong
      Pages 101-116

    8. Slithering Locomotion

      • David L. Hu, Michael Shelley
      Pages 117-135

  4. Contributed Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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  5. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

    1. Shark Skin Boundary Layer Control

      • Amy Lang, Philip Motta, Maria Laura Habegger, Robert Hueter
      Pages 139-150

    2. Numerical Modeling of the Performance of Ray Fins in Fish Locomotion

      • Qiang Zhu, Kourosh Shoele
      Pages 151-157

    3. Formation of Ocean Surface Patterns by Cetacean Fluke Oscillations

      • Rachel Levy, David Uminsky
      Pages 159-166

    4. Unsolved Problems in the Locomotion of Mammalian Sperm

      • Susan S. Suarez
      Pages 167-176

    5. Computing optimal Strokes for Low Reynolds Number Swimmers

      • Antonio Desimone, Luca Heltai, FranÇois Alouges, Aline Lefebvre-Lepot
      Pages 177-184

    6. Models of Low Reynolds Number Swimmers Inspired by Cell Blebbing

      • Qixuan Wang, Jifeng Hu, Hans Othmer
      Pages 185-195

    7. A Low-Reynolds-Number Treadmilling Swimmer Near a Semi-infinite Wall

      • Kiori Obuse, Jean-Luc Thiffeault
      Pages 197-206

    8. Cilia Induced Bending of Paramecium in Microchannels

      • Saikat Jana, Junil Kim, Sung Yang, Sunghwan Jung
      Pages 207-215

    9. Rheology of Sheared Bacterial Suspensions

      • Zhenlu Cui, Xiao-Ming Zeng
      Pages 217-224
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Courant Institute of Math Sciences, New York University, New York City, USA

    Stephen Childress

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Anette Hosoi

  • , Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    William W. Schultz

  • , Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Jane Wang

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