Paramecium swimming in capillary tube

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Jana, Saikat ^a   Um, Soong Ho ^b   Jung, Sunghwan ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONFINED CYLINDER; GLASS CAPILLARIES; HELICAL TRAJECTORY; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; METACHRONAL WAVES; SOLID BOUNDARIES; SWIMMING VELOCITIES;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 84860502663     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4704792     Document Type: Article

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