Experimental demonstration of the dynamics and stability of a low reynolds number swimmer near a plane wall

Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, ACC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4205-4210

  Zhang, Sebastian ^a   Or, Yizhar ^b   Murray, Richard M ^c  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SILICONES; VIDEO CAMERAS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; INERTIAL EFFECT; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEMS; ROTATING CYLINDERS; SILICONE OIL; VISCOUS EFFECT;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 77957788639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2010.5530846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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