Fluid Dynamics Scientific Journals
Fluid dynamics influence the cost of food capture and movement by controlling food availability. For example, caddis fly
larvae and black flies feed on food transported in fluids.
Species of caddis fly
larvae live on stream bottoms and depend on food that has deposited in the stream bottom. Water flow may move food away.On a larger scale,
fluid dynamics generates hurricanes, tornadoes, and flooding that can greatly alter environments. Changes in foraging energetics for a
species associated with a disturbance can be beneficial or nonbeneficial for growth and reproduction and the impacts on foraging may be long term or short term. Many foraging organisms have a high “energy returned on investment” (EROI) because they are exploiting the large energy flow of their environment.Fluid dynamics also impacts the
thermodynamics of biota. The movement of fluids increases the rate of thermal conductivity, causing phenomenon such as the wind-chill effect. The profitability to a homeotherm of foraging can be altered by changes in
thermal conductivity because of changes in energy costs of maintaining body temperature. Similarly, by influencing thermal conductivity,
fluid dynamics alters the ability of poikilotherms to perform foraging activities.
Turbulence persists as one of the major theoretical and computational problems of fluid dynamics.
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