Modeling simple locomotors in Stokes flow

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 958-977

  Kanevsky, Alex ^a   Shelley, Michael J ^a   Tornberg, Anna Karin ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boundary integral formulation; Locomotors; Nystrom collocation; Stokes equations

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL FORMULATIONS; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; LOCOMOTOR; MICRO-ORGANISMS; NANOMACHINES; NYSTROM COLLOCATION; SIMPLE++; STOKES EQUATIONS; STOKES FLOWS;

SPHERES;

EID: 72049106922     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.05.030     Document Type: Article

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