Swimming and Flying in Nature

Abstract

Of Volume 2 -- Special Invited Lecture -- Aerodynamic aspects of animal flight -- Swimming of Larger Animals -- Part I -- Muscular and energetic aspects of fish swimming (Invited General Lecture) -- The response of fish to shearing surfaces in the water -- The forces resisting locomotion in bluefish -- Speed, power, and drag measurements of dolphins and porpoises -- Efficiency of pectoral-fin propulsion of Cymatogaster aggregata -- Hydrodynamics of the body of Dytiscus marginalis (Dytiscidae Coleoptera) -- Swimming energetics of the larval anchovy -- Swimming of planktonic Cyclops species (Copepoda, Crustacea): pattern, movements and their control -- Swimming of Larger Animals -- Part II -- Hydromechanical aspects of fish swimming (Invited General Lecture) -- Lunate-tail swimming propulsion -- Laminar boundary-layer development and transition of fish-shaped bodies of revolution -- Hydrodynamic drag reduction due to fish slimes -- The swimming of slender fish-like bodies in waves -- Extraction of flow energy by fish and birds in a wavy stream -- Some hydrodynamical aspects of fish schooling -- Experimental studies of human swimming at the Netherlands Ship Model Basin -- Flight of Birds and Insects -- Part I -- Flapping flight and power in birds and insects, conventional and novel mechanisms (Invited General Lecture) -- Hovering flight of the dragonfly Aeschna juncea L., kinematics and aerodynamics -- Non-steady-state aerodynamics of the flight of Encarsia formosa -- Aerodynamic forces and their calculation in insect flight -- On the mechanics of flight of small insects -- Insect aerodynamics near hovering -- Air flow and the flight of a noctuid moth -- Flight of Birds and Insects -- Part II -- Aerodynamics and energetics of vertebrate fliers (Invited General Lecture) -- Hovering flight in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) -- Flight metabolism of flying foxes -- On the efficiency increasing interaction of thrust producing lifting surfaces -- A note on flapping flight with surging -- Bird aerodynamic experiments -- The effect of span-wise variations in amplitude on the thrust-generating performance of a flapping thin wing -- Soaring birds as 'Maxwell demons' -- Ornithopter aerodynamic experiments -- Author Index.