Optimal swimming at low reynolds numbers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Avron, J E ^a   Gat, O ^a   Kenneth, O ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DRAG; FLUIDS; MICROORGANISMS; MIRRORS; REFLECTION; TOPOLOGY;

MICROBOTS; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; SWIMMING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 19744381209     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.186001     Document Type: Article

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