New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-960583-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 908 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School

* Simple and clear introduction to many concepts used in the modelling in biological systems
* Presents a step by step description of modern mathematical techniques
* Discusses many different applications, ranging from cellular and microbial systems, to plants and physiology
* An invaluable source for references on modern challenges of mechanical biology
* Presents both fluid and solid mechanics in a unified way
* Offers a full review of modelling of tumor and morphogenesis

In July 2009, many experts in the mathematical modelling of biological sciences gathered in Les Houches for a 4-week summer school on the mechanics and physics of biological systems. The goal of the school was to present to students and researchers an integrated view of new trends and challenges in physical and mathematical aspects of biomechanics. While the scope for such a topic is very wide, we focused on problems where solid and fluid mechanics play a central role. The school
covered both the general mathematical theory of mechanical biology in the context of continuum mechanics but also the specific modelling of particular systems in the biology of the cell, plants, microbes, and in physiology. These lecture notes are organised (as was the school) around five different
main topics all connected by the common theme of continuum modelling for biological systems: Bio-fluidics, Bio-gels, Bio-mechanics, Bio-membranes, and Morphogenesis. These notes are not meant as a journal review of the topic but rather as a gentle tutorial introduction to the readers who want to understand the basic problematic in modelling biological systems from a mechanics perspective.

Zielgruppe

Graduate students, lecturers and researchers in physics, biology, applied mathematics and mechanics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ben Amar, Martine

Goriely, Alain

Müller, Martin Michael

Cugliandolo, Leticia

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Biophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Kontinuumsmechanik, Strömungslehre
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Molekulare Medizin, Zellbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Physiologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Kontinuumsmechanik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by 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, and Leticia Cugliandolo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France