Active elastic dimers: Self-propulsion and current reversal on a featureless track

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Kumar, K Vijay ^a   Ramaswamy, Sriram ^a,b   Rao, Madan ^c,d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^c RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; DNA;

DRIFT VELOCITY; ELASTIC DIMERS; STRIKING CURRENT REVERSALS;

DIMERS;

EID: 38949112894     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.020102     Document Type: Article

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