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The 61 pages that link to Hydrodynamics, each with the reason it gives.

• Aquatic locomotionRelated: It describes the water forces acting on moving organisms.

• Pectoral finRelated: Water pressure and flow explain how a pectoral fin produces thrust and lift.

• Functional morphologyRelated: It explains how body shape affects movement through water and air.

• Divergence theoremRelated: It relates net fluid flow across a boundary to sources or sinks inside.

• Alexander FriedmannRelated: Friedmann’s research included fluid dynamics as well as relativity and cosmology.

• AnomalocarisRelated: Its flexible flaps and streamlined body can be understood through water flow and thrust.

• Benthic locomotionRelated: Water resistance and currents affect animals moving close to the bottom.

• Crocodilian locomotionRelated: Water resistance and body shape constrain how crocodilians swim efficiently.

• Paired finsRelated: Water resistance and lift determine how fin movements change a fish’s course.

• TailRelated: Water flow around a moving tail determines how effectively it produces thrust.

• Jean le Rond d’AlembertRelated: His investigations of fluid resistance brought him into debates about moving bodies in fluids.

• SpinosaurusRelated: Models of its tail and limbs test how effectively it could swim.

• PlesiosaurusRelated: Fluid forces help explain the performance and limits of Plesiosaurus’s body and paddles.

• PortunidaeRelated: Water resistance shapes how paddle legs and body form affect swimming.

• River dolphinRelated: River currents and shallow channels shape the dolphins’ swimming and maneuvering.

• Vilhelm BjerknesRelated: Bjerknes drew on fluid dynamics to frame the atmosphere as a system governed by physical laws.

• Hammerhead sharkRelated: The cephalofoil affects lift, drag, and turning while the shark swims.

• LiopleurodonRelated: Water resistance constrained the shape and swimming performance of a massive marine reptile.

• MesosaurusRelated: Streamlining helps explain how Mesosaurus's body shape reduced resistance in water.

• JaekelopterusRelated: Water flow shaped the swimming demands faced by a large aquatic arthropod.

• ShonisaurusRelated: Water resistance constrained the shape and swimming performance of a giant animal.

• ChampsosaurusRelated: Its streamlined body and tapered snout reduced resistance as it moved through water.

• DiplocaulusRelated: One hypothesis proposes that Diplocaulus’s broad skull helped it move through water by generating lift.

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• AnaspidaRelated: Anaspids' streamlined outlines are relevant to movement through water.

• ArandaspisRelated: Its flattened, armoured form shaped how it moved through water.

• Computational astrophysicsRelated: Fluid equations model gas flows in stars, accretion disks, and cosmic structure.

• DallasaurusRelated: Water resistance shaped the body forms of increasingly aquatic mosasauroids.

• Grapsus grapsusRelated: Waves impose forces that the crab must resist or evade on exposed shores.

• PleurosauridaeRelated: Streamlined form reduces resistance as an aquatic reptile moves through water.

• StethacanthusRelated: A tall dorsal structure would have affected water flow around a swimming fish.

• TeleosauridaeRelated: Water resistance shaped the locomotion and body proportions of aquatic teleosaurids.

• VeliidaeRelated: Water resistance and leg strokes shape how riffle bugs move across calm and flowing water.