Correlations and fluctuations of stress and velocity in suspensions of swimming microorganisms

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Underhill, Patrick T ^a   Graham, Michael D ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; MICROORGANISMS;

FLUCTUATION DISSIPATION THEOREM; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; LORENTZIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; ORIENTATIONAL CORRELATIONS; ORIENTATIONAL DYNAMICS; ROTATIONAL DIFFUSION MODEL; SWIMMING MICRO-ORGANISMS;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84855281318     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3670420     Document Type: Article

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