Using the immersed boundary method to model complex fluids-structure interaction in sperm motility

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 343-355

  Dillon, Robert H ^a   Zhuo, Jingxuan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimension theory; Multifractal analysis; Poincar recurrences

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952214552     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.343     Document Type: Article

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