Swimming speeds of filaments in nonlinearly viscoelastic fluids

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Fu, Henry C ^a   Wolgemuth, Charles W ^b   Powers, Thomas R ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MICROORGANISMS; MOLLUSCS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; SHELLFISH; VISCOELASTICITY;

NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NON-LINEAR FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NONLINEAR VISCO-ELASTIC; SCALLOP THEOREMS; SWIMMING VELOCITIES; TIME REVERSIBILITIES; VIS-COELASTIC FLUIDS;

CYLINDER CONFIGURATIONS;

EID: 64249161673     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3086320     Document Type: Article

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