Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- A Flow in Collapsible Tubes.- 2. Flows in deformable tubes and channels Theoretical models and biological applications.- 3. Experimental studies of collapsible tubes.- B Instability of Flow Past Compliant Walls.- 4. Convective and absolute instabilities of flows over compliant walls.- 5. Hydrodynamic stability of flow through compliant channels and tubes.- 6. Wave excitation on flexible walls in the presence of a fluid flow.- 7. Propagation of waves across junctions between rigid and compliant walls.- 8. Rotating flows over compliant walls.- C Drag Modification and Turbulence Modification.- 9. Drag reduction using compliant walls.- 10. Theoretical approaches to the effect of wall compliance on turbulent flow.- 11. Flow-induced waves on compliant surfaces subject to a turbulent boundary layer.- 12. Experimental research on turbulent flows over compliant walls.- 13. Dolphin Hydrodynamics.