Three-sphere low-Reynolds-number swimmer near a wall

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

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Zargar, Rojman ^a   Najafi, Ali ^b   Miri, Mirfaez ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; QUADRUPOLES; TRANSLATIONAL VELOCITY;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

SPHERES;

EID: 69449099299     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.026308     Document Type: Article

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