Collective behaviour of swimming micro-organisms

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.

Volumn 67, Issue , 2010, Pages 1293-1301

  Pedley, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioconvection; Biological fluid dynamics; Collective behaviour; Instability of suspensions; Micro organisms

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVECTION; BIOCONVECTION PATTERNS; BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS; COHERENT STRUCTURE; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; CONCENTRATED SUSPENSION; DIFFUSIVE PROCESS; DILUTE SUSPENSIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; INITIAL POSITION; INTRINSIC RANDOMNESS; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; MODEL ORGANISMS; PAIRWISE INTERACTION; STOKESIAN DYNAMICS; SURFACE VELOCITY; THREE DIMENSIONS; TIME-SCALES; TWO-DIMENSION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MICROORGANISMS; SPHERES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BIOLOGY;

EID: 79960074623     PISSN: 10466789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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