Treadmilling swimmers near a no-slip wall at low Reynolds number

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 577-585

  Crowdy, Darren ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confined geometries; Low Reynolds number; Swimmers; Treadmilling

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE MODEL; BIPOLAR COORDINATES; CONFINED GEOMETRIES; EXACT SOLUTION; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; RECIPROCAL THEOREM; ROTATING SOLIDS; SLIP WALLS; SWIMMERS; TREADMILLING;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 79955524244     PISSN: 00207462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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