The transient swimming of a waving sheet

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 466, Issue 2113, 2010, Pages 107-126

  Pak, On Shun ^a   Lauga, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell motility; Locomotion; Low reynolds number; Micro organisms; Swimming problem

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIPED LOCOMOTION; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MICROORGANISMS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CELL MOTILITY; FLUID FLOW; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; STOKES FLOWS; SWIMMING SPEED; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT EFFECT; TRANSIENT FLUID FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 73949147357     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0208     Document Type: Article

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