A two-dimensional model of low-Reynolds number swimming beneath a free surface

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 681, Issue , 2011, Pages 24-47

  Crowdy, Darren ^a   Lee, Sungyon ^b   Samson, Ophir ^a   Lauga, Eric ^c   Hosoi, A E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

interfacial flows (free surface); low dimensional models; low Reynolds number flows

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING TECHNIQUE; FREE-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; INTERFACIAL FLOW (FREE SURFACE); LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; LOW-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; NON-LINEAR HYDRODYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COUPLING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FREE SURFACE FLOW; LOCOMOTION; MICROORGANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; SWIMMING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 80052137881     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.223     Document Type: Article

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