一、課程簡介:
探討並比較各種不同生物體在週遭生活環境中進行覓食、運動、生存或
生長等行為時，所採用之工程力學原理。

二、課程大綱:
1.Introduction
2.The Fluid Environment
3.Basic Principles
4.The Mechanical Behavior of Materials
5.Streamlines
6.Pressure and Momentum
7.Drag, Scale, and The Reynolds Number
8.The Drag of Simple Shapes and Sessile Systems
9.Shape and Drag: Motile Animal
10.Velocity Gradient and Boundary Layers
11.Life in Velocity Gradients
12.Making and Using Vortices
13.Lift, Airfoils, Gliding, and Soaring
14.The Thrust of Flying and Swimming
15.Flows within Pipes and Other Structure
16.Internal Flows in Organisms
17.Unsteady Flows
18.Flow at Fluids- Fluid Interfaces

三、授課對象及學分數：
農工系三、四年級、碩士班及博士班學生
學分數：3 學分

四、成績計算方式:
期中報告(60%)
期末考(40%)

五、參考書目:
1.Steven Vogel (1996), Life in Moving Fluids - The Physical
Biology of Flow, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press.
2.Mark W. Denny (1993), Air and Water - The Biology and
Physics of Life`s Media, Printon University Press.
3.Karl J. Niklas (1992), Plant Biomechanics - An Engineering
Approach to Plant Form and Function, The University of
Chicago Press.
4.Y. C. Fung (1990),Biomechanics - Motion, Flow, Stress, and
Growth, Springer - Verlag.