Fluid dynamics of animal locomotion: tentative syllabus

1. Background and overview
2. Coordinate descriptions, conservation laws and the Navier-Stokes
     equations. General aspects of locomotion in a dissipative fluid.
3. The Stokesian (low Reynolds number) realm
      a. Basic properties.
      b. The swimming of a sheet
      c.  Swimming of a flagellar body
      d. Swimming of a ciliated body
4. The Eulerian (high Reynolds number) realm
      a. Bernoulli theorems. principles of vortex dynamics
      b.  Aspects of fish locomotion in nature.
      c. The swimming of slender fish
      d.  Forward flight of birds and insects.
      e. Hovering
5.  The transition from Stokesian to Eulerian locomotion
6.  Other related problems
     a. Feeding currents
     b. Bioconvection
     c. Pumping by wall motions