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INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages 553-575Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ics115
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- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- NSF Physics of Living Systems
- Army Research Lab MAST CTA
- Army Research Office
- Blanchard Milliken fund
- NSF [IOS-0920358, OCE-0928491]
- AFOSR [FA9550-10-1-006]
- NIH CRCNS [R01 NS054271]
- ARO [111 234]
- NSF DMS [1022802, 1022619]
- NSF FRG [0854961]
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Comparative Biomechanics
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Invertebrate Zoology
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Vertebrate Morphology
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Ecology and Evolution
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Neurobiology
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1150760] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0920358] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0854961, 1022802, 1329726] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1022619] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recent advances in computational methods have made realistic large-scale simulations of animal locomotion possible. This has resulted in numerous mathematical and computational studies of animal movement through fluids and over substrates with the purpose of better understanding organisms' performance and improving the design of vehicles moving through air and water and on land. This work has also motivated the development of improved numerical methods and modeling techniques for animal locomotion that is characterized by the interactions of fluids, substrates, and structures. Despite the large body of recent work in this area, the application of mathematical and numerical methods to improve our understanding of organisms in the context of their environment and physiology has remained relatively unexplored. Nature has evolved a wide variety of fascinating mechanisms of locomotion that exploit the properties of complex materials and fluids, but only recently are the mathematical, computational, and robotic tools available to rigorously compare the relative advantages and disadvantages of different methods of locomotion in variable environments. Similarly, advances in computational physiology have only recently allowed investigators to explore how changes at the molecular, cellular, and tissue levels might lead to changes in performance at the organismal level. In this article, we highlight recent examples of how computational, mathematical, and experimental tools can be combined to ultimately answer the questions posed in one of the grand challenges in organismal biology: Integrating living and physical systems..
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