Self-propulsion in viscoelastic fluids: Pushers vs. pullers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Lailai ^a   Lauga, Eric ^b   Brandt, Luca ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW VELOCITY; POLYMERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOELASTICITY;

DECREASING FUNCTIONS; ENERGETIC BALANCE; FLOW DISTURBANCES; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; NEGATIVE VALUES; SURFACE DEFORMATION; VIS-COELASTIC FLUIDS; WEISSENBERG NUMBER;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 84861980665     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4718446     Document Type: Article

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