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Ecological mechanics : principles of life's physical interactions /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, UK :
Princeton University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 ECOLOGICAL MECHANICS An Introduction; Mechanics and Ecology Combined: Coral Reefs; Response Functions; Transport Phenomena; What's in a Name?; What's Left Out; A Road Map; Online Supplements; A Note on Notation; Part I Basic Concepts; Chapter 2 BASIC PHYSICS AND MATH; Location; Dimensions and Units of Measure; Converting Units; Trigonometry; Translation; Translational Velocity; Translational Acceleration; Rotation; Force and Translational Acceleration.
- Moment and Rotational AccelerationMomentum; Pressure; Buoyancy; Energy; Conservation of Energy; Friction; Power; Summary; Chapter 3 RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; Concepts and Terminology; Monotonic Functions; Peaks and Valleys: Unimodal Response Functions; Complications; Jensen's Inequality: The Fallacy of the Average; Linear versus Nonlinear; The Effects of Nonlinearity; Concepts and Conclusions; Part II The Mechanics of Transport; Chapter 4 DIFFUSION Random Motion and its Consequences; Rules of a Random Walk; Average Position; Dispersion: The Variance of Position; The Diffusion Coefficient.
- What Drives Random Walks?Fick's Equation; The Maximum Size of Phytoplankton; Concepts and Conclusions; Chapter 5 AN INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS; Shear; What Is a Fluid?; Liquids and Gases; Dynamic Viscosity; Viscous Friction; Reynolds Number; Conservation of Mass and Volume; Streamlines; Conservation of Energy: Bernoulli's Principle; Concepts, Conclusions, and Caveats; Chapter 6 BOUNDARY LAYERS I Equilibrium Layers; Basic Concepts; Laminar Boundary Layers: An Introduction; Moment and Rotation; Turbulent Boundary Layers: An Introduction; The Onset of Turbulence; Turbulent Shear Stress.
- Reynolds Shear StressThe Turbulent Velocity Profile; Measuring u*; Sweeps and Bursts; Concepts, Conclusions, and Caveats; Chapter 7 BOUNDARY LAYERS II Dynamic Layers; Boundary-Layer Thickness Defined; Thickness of Dynamic Laminar Boundary Layers; Shear Stress in Dynamic Laminar Boundary Layers; Mass Transport; The Dynamic Laminar Velocity Profile; Dynamic Turbulent Boundary Layers; Mass Flux in Turbulent Boundary Layers; Oscillating Flow; Concepts, Conclusions, and Caveats; Chapter 8 FLUID-DYNAMIC FORCES I Introduction and Low-Reynolds-Number Flows; Drag at Low Reynolds Number.
- Low-Re Ecomechanics: Sensory Ecology and Predator-Prey InteractionsConcepts, Conclusions, and Caveats; Chapter 9 FLUID-DYNAMIC FORCES II High Reynolds Numbers; Forces; Force Coefficients; Rules of Thumb; Ecomechanical Examples; Concepts, Conclusions, and Caveats; Chapter 10 LOCOMOTION; The Physics of Locomotion; Sources of Power: The Motors; Drifting: Passive Locomotion; Crawling: Adhesive Locomotion; Burrowing; Walking and Running; Wheels; Swimming; Gliding Flight; Flapping Flight; Speed and Power of Transport: A Summary; Cost of Transport; Climbing and Jumping; Locomotion in Context.