Stresslet asymptotics for a treadmilling swimmer near a two-dimensional corner: Hydrodynamic bound states

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2148, 2012, Pages 3765-3783

  Davis, Anthony M J ^a   Crowdy, Darren G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corner region; Mellin transform; Treadmilling swimmer

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; ASYMPTOTICS; BOUND STATE; CORNER REGION; DYNAMICAL EQUATION; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MELLIN TRANSFORM; PERIODIC ORBITS; THIRD ORDER; TREADMILLING SWIMMER;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 84872361105     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0237     Document Type: Article

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