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Biology and the mechanics of the wave-swept environment

Title: Biology and the mechanics of the wave-swept environment / Mark W. Denny.
Author: Denny, Mark W., 1951-
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988.

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Description

xii, 329 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [313]-319.

Contents

Introduction : the need for proper tools -- The organisms -- An introduction to fluid dynamics -- An introduction to water waves -- Wave theories -- The random sea -- Breaking and broken waves -- Tides -- Benthic boundary layers -- Turbulence and mixing -- Hydrodynamic forces -- Properties of biological materials -- Static beam theory -- Dynamic beam bending -- Adhesion -- Structural wave exposure -- Mechanical determinants of size and shape -- Whither hence? -- Techniques of measurement.

ISBN

0691084866
9780691084862
0691084874
9780691084879

LCCN

87032806

OCLC

ocm17199947
17199947
SCSB-1702081

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library