This small volume is the English edition of a Japanese book   entitled "Learning fluid dynamics from dolphins". The title is derived from   the fact that "Dolphins swim too fast to be explained scientifically". The   first person to clearly describe this phenomenon was the English biologist   Sir James Gray (J.Gray, 1936), and this mystery is known among physicists   and specialists in marine engineering as "Gray's paradox" or simply as the   "Mystery of dolphins". In addition to dolphins, tuna, marlin and some other   fish are also famous for swimming at extraordinary high speeds. Treating   both dolphins and fish together in the same title is difficult because both   animals have far different taxonomy - dolphins belonging to oceanic mammals   and tuna and marlin belonging to teleostei fish. This book uses dolphins as   symbolic animals that perform high-speed swimming. Furthermore, "dolphins"   are chosen as the main co-actor in this English edition because western   readers feel an affinity for them. This book focuses on readers, who are   interested in technology and science and who hope to specialize in   technological occupations. This book aims to introduce the developing   history of fluid dynamics, and then outlines the research history and the   present recognition of "Gray's paradox". Finally, the author's research,   through about three decades, is reviewed. This paradox suggested in the   early 20th century has carried over into the 21st century without finding a   complete solution. It would be a great pleasure for the author if the   readers find interest in fluid dynamics, a discipline that has developed by   overcoming numerous paradoxes, or feel the mood at the forefront of the   "intelligence" of mankind.

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