Akira Azuma

The Biokinetics of Flying and Swimming

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Every creature has body shape and uses mode of locomotion that is most economical for the way of life it has developed through natural selection in response to severe environmental conditions." --Akira Azuma Through study of locomotion of living creatures, Akira Azuma has come to the conclusion that every creature is made and moves in a manner that is best suited to their environmental conditions. Thus, one purpose of this book is to shed light on the physical relationships among habitat, form, way of life, and mode of movement in living creatures. The text also reviews results of theoretical and empirical research carried out by various scientists over the years. Each of the two main parts of the book, Flying Dynamics and Swimming Dynamics, is written from the viewpoint of mechanics, specifically fluid dynamics, rather than from the viewpoint of physiology and ecology. Thus the chapters and sections are organized according to mechanical, not biological principles. The book will be useful not only to engineers working and studying fluid and flight dynamics, but also for biologists using mechanical analyses to gain a better understanding of the behavior of animals and the mechanical functions of the body parts in relation to their forms and modes of locomotion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1002g
• ISBN-13: 9781563477812
• ISBN-10: 1563477815
• Artikelnr.: 21341596

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Form and Locomotion.- 1.2 Dynamic Similarity.- 2 Dragging, Floating, and Jumping.- 2.1 Terminal Speed of Free-falling Bodies.- 2.2 Drifting in Air.- 2.3 Drifting in Water.- 2.4 Jumping and Free Falling.- 3 Flight by Gliding.- 3.1 Wing Characteristics.- 3.2 Gliding Flight in Birds.- 3.3 Wind Effects on Gliding Flight.- 3.4 Auxiliary Devices.- 3.5 Other Forms of Gliding Flight.- 3.6 Rotary Seeds.- 4 Flight by Beating.- 4.1 Powered Flight.- 4.2 Wing Motions.- 4.3 Power-Saving Flight.- 4.4 Flight in Insects.- 4.5 Flight Mechanics in Insects.- 5 Swimming by Snaking.- 5.1 Micro- and Medium-sized Elongate Organisms.- 5.2 Undulatory Motion of a Large Elongate Body.- 6 Swimming by Fanning.- 6.1 Fish.- 6.2 Slender Bodies.- 6.3 Fanning Mechanics.- 6.4 Cetacea and Sirenia.- 7 Swimming by Other Methods.- 7.1 Paddling and Whipping.- 7.2 Jetting.- 7.3 Sweeping.- 7.4 Beating.- 7.5 Sailing.- 7.6 Skating and Wave Riding.- 8 Conclusion.- 8.1 Concluding Remarks by Chapter.- 8.2 Wing Types and Body Forms.- 8.3 In Summary.- References and Further Reading.