Biological fluid dynamics

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Author: Dr. Timothy J. Pedley, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK

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Current deadline: 	12 June 2009

This article will briefly cover: A. Internal, physiological, fluid dynamics, concerned mostly with blood flow and respiration. B. External fluid dynamics, i.e. the interaction of living organisms with their fluid environment. This will mostly concern swimming and flying, especially fish swimming and the individualk and collective behaviour of swimming micro-organisms.

Suggested by: Dr. Charles S. Peskin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, NY
Invited by: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia
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