Contributions
Recommendations and guidelines from the 2014 NSF-supported IPLS Conference, attended by more than 150 faculty members
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Eric Brewe
Juan Burciaga
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Fluids are essential to life for transportation of food, waste, signals, organisms and propagules.
Static Pressure, Flow Rate, Bernoulli's Principle, Hagen-Poiseuille Equation, Viscosity
Healthy Cardiovascular Function, Biomechanical, Physical Mechanisms
Dawn Meredith
Daniel Young
Connect exponential equation to cooling, chemical reactions, metabolic rates and filtration rates
Heat Transfer, RC Circuits
Thermoregulation, Renal/Urinary, Metabolism
Dawn Meredith
Christopher Shubert
Forces are used to investigate how centrifugation and sedimentation can characterize small particles.
Velocity, 2D Acceleration, Force & Acceleration, Density and Buoyancy
Pressure & Fluid Diagnostics
Dawn Meredith
Problems that highlight the challenges of being at the right temperature
Temperature, Heat Transfer, Heat Capacity, Latent Heat
Thermoregulation
Dawn Meredith
Gulls use exchangers to save energy with warm cores and cold feet. Fish gills operate analogously
Heat Transfer
Physical Mechanisms, Surface Area/volume, Thermoregulation
Dawn Meredith
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