Instability regimes in flowing suspensions of swimming micro-organisms

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Pahlavan, Amir Alizadeh ^a   Saintillan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; MICROORGANISMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PATTERN MATCHING; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN RATE; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TURBULENT FLOW;

DILUTE SUSPENSIONS; INTERMEDIATE STRAIN RATE; KINETIC ENERGY SPECTRA; KINETIC MODELING; PATTERN FORMATION; SWIMMING MICRO-ORGANISMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; VORTICITY VECTORS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 79551516548     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3529411     Document Type: Article

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