The Lecture

Why do elephants live longer than mice? How does the locomotion of eels and tuna differ? Why have microorganisms developed a different movement mechanism than larger creatures? The lecture Biofluid Mechanics deals with the modelling of processes in nature. We use continuum mechanics and physico-chemical models and deal with scaling laws in nature. From a fluid mechanics point of view, we deal with viscosity- and inertia-dominated external and internal flows.