Tuning gastropod locomotion: Modeling the influence of mucus rheology on the cost of crawling

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Lauga, Eric ^a   Hosoi, A E ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

GASTROPOD LOCOMOTION; MECHANICAL MODEL; MUCUS RHEOLOGY; MUSCULAR WAVES; SHEAR-THINNING;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 33751566364     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2382591     Document Type: Article

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36. These mechanical properties are very similar to those of other forms of animal secretions (respiratory, gastric, and cervical mucus).
37. The absolute value in the expansion has been included to preserve the physical symmetries in the problem. To demonstrate that our results do not rely on the singularity arising from this absolute value, we present an alternate analytic expansion in Appendix.