New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 92, July 2009
Author:   Martine Ben Amar (, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) ,  Alain Goriely (, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University) ,  Martin Michael Müller (, Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, France) ,  Leticia Cugliandolo (, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
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Pages:   380
Publication Date:   26 May 2011
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New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 92, July 2009


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Author:   Martine Ben Amar (, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) ,  Alain Goriely (, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University) ,  Martin Michael Müller (, Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, France) ,  Leticia Cugliandolo (, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 25.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 17.30cm
Weight:   0.908kg
ISBN:  

9780199605835


ISBN 10:   0199605831
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   26 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Locomotion at Low Reynolds number 2: Surface Tension 3: Dynamics of Complex Bio-Fluids 4: Active Fluids and Gels 5: Elasticity and Dynamics of Cytoskeletal Filaments and their Networks 6: Morphoelasticity - A theory of elastic growth 7: Mechanics of Tumour Growth: Multiphase Models, Adhesion, and Evolving Configurations 8: Microbial mechanics: the growth and form of filamentary micro-organism 9: The physics of the cell membrane 10: Modeling Plant Morphogenesis and Growth 11: How cell mechanics shapes embryos

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This book collects and organises current material covering an extremely broad field of study, and for this reason it should be carefully read. Contemporary Physics


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