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Author Nagai, Minoru

Title Thinking fluid dynamics with dolphins / Minoru Nagai
Published Tokyo : Ohmsha ; Amsterdam : IOS, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Cover; Title page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Gray's Paradox; Chapter 2 Early History of Fluid Dynamics -- From Aristotle to Newton and D'Alembert; Chapter 3 Modern Fluid Dynamics; Chapter 4 Principles of Thrust Generation; Chapter 5 Research on High-Speed Swimming Performance; Chapter 6 High-Speed Swimming Method of Carp and Dolphins; Chapter 7 Robot Fish -- Development of Ocean Engineering; Epilogue -- The Silver Lining of Solving the Paradox; References; Author and Translators Profile; Index
Summary Mainly for readers who are interested in technology and science and who hope to specialize in technological occupations, this book introduces the developing history of fluid dynamics and then outlines the research history, as well as reviewing Minoru Nagai's research of approximately three decades
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-108) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Dolphins -- Locomotion
Fluid dynamics.
Hydrodynamics
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Material Science.
Fluid dynamics.
Delfine Familie
Hydrodynamik
Dauphins -- Locomotion.
Fluides, Dynamique des.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781586032319
1586032313
9784274904929
427490492X
0585459010
9780585459011
1601294719
9781601294715
Other Titles Iruka ni manabu ryƫtai rikigaku. English