• DOI:10.1007/BF02705043
Corpus ID: 23900176

Biological scaling and physics

@article{Rau2007BiologicalSA,
  title={Biological scaling and physics},
  author={A. Rau},
  journal={Journal of Biosciences},
  year={2007},
  volume={27},
  pages={475-478}
}

A. Rau

Published 2007

Physics, Medicine

Journal of Biosciences

Kleiber’s law in biology states that the specific metabolic rate (metabolic rate per unit mass) scales as M-1/2 in terms of the massM of the organism. A long-standing puzzle is the (-1/4) power in place of the usual expectation of (-1/3) based on the surface to volume ratio in three-dimensions. While recent papers by physicists have focused exclusively on geometry in attempting to explain the puzzle, we consider here a specific law of physics that governs fluid flow to show how the (-1/4) power… CONTINUE READING

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