Subject Index
acceleration
Corio lis 171, 174, 209
gravitational 7, 476
added mass 63
added mass coefficient 64, 448
aerofoils 50, 61
Amazon River 13, 135, 406, 407, 409
Andaman Sea 196, 198, 200
angle of attack 61
animal locomotion 357-377
at low Reynolds number 369
elongated body theory 364-367
Froude efficiency 364, 365, 368,
371
jet propulsion 367
kinematics 359-363
swimming modes 358-359
swimming strategy 372-376
antinode point 104
Archimedes' law 21, 22, 67
Aristotle 89
aspect ratio 62
Atlantic Ocean 6, 12, 99, 100, 212, 219,
222, 235, 243, 281, 282, 283,
286, 306, 316, 319
atmosphere-ocean system 223
autocorrelation function 329-331
Australian North West Shelf 197, 198
Baltic Sea 14, 15, 105, 195, 276, 463
baroclinic water mass 184
barotropic water mass 184
Bay of Fundy 169, 170
Bay of Le Mont-Saint-Michel 169
Beaufort Scale 93
Becquerel, H. 282
becquerel (Bq) 282
bending 343-346
moment 343, 347, 435, 439-441
shear force 345
Bering Sea 14, 212
Bernoulli, D. 487
Bikini Atoll 265, 282
biological materials 347-351
brittle 349
crystalline composites 348-350
fibres 350, 351
rubbers 351
Black Sea 271, 276, 281
Blackman-Tukey method 143, 329
bluff body 49
Boeing 727 takeoff velocity 63
bottom friction 250
boundary conditions 108, 498
dynamic 499
kinematic 498
non-slip 40
slip 40
boundary layer 39
atmospheric 203
laminar 41, 43, 137, 138
laminar sublayer 44, 45
thickness 41, 45, 137
turbulent 44, 48, 139, 140
Bragg scattering 317
breeze
land 205
sea 204
Bristol Channel 169