Mechanics of peristaltic locomotion and role of anchoring

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 67, 2012, Pages 222-233

  Tanaka, Yoshimi ^a   Ito, Kentaro ^b,d   Nakagaki, Toshiyuki ^c,d   Kobayashi, Ryo ^b,d  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crawling; Diffusion equation; Earthworm; Peristaltic locomotion; Perturbation analysis; Snail

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FRICTION;

CRAWLING; DIFFUSION EQUATION; EARTHWORM; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; SNAIL;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CRAWLING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EARTHWORM; LOCOMOTION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; SNAIL; SNAKE; VELOCITY;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 84863394173     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0339     Document Type: Article

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