PHYS 2212L Chapter Notes - Chapter Machnics: Chemical Vapor Deposition, Dialysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics
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The air we breathe and the water we drink (and which makes up most of our body mass) are fluids. Motion of air keeps us comfortable in a warm room, and air provides the oxygen we need to sustain life. Similarly, most of our (liquid) body fluids are water based. And proper motion of these fluids within our bodies, even down to the cellular level, is essential to good health. It is clear that fluids are completely necessary for the support of carbon-based life forms. But the study of biological systems is only one (and a very recent one) possible application of a knowledge of fluid dynamics. Fluids occur, and often dominate physical phenomena, on all macroscopic (non-quantum) length scales of the known universe from the mega parsecs of galactic structure down to the micro and even nan scales of biological cell activity.
