Fluid transport by individual microswimmers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 726, Issue , 2013, Pages 5-25

  Pushkin, Dmitri O ^a   Shum, Henry ^b   Yeomans, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

biological fluid dynamics; low Reynolds number flows; mixing

Indexed keywords

MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRACERS;

BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS; FLUID TRANSPORT; INITIAL DISTANCE; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; REALISTIC MODEL; SWIMMER MOTIONS; TRACER PARTICLE;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIMMING; TRACER;

EID: 84878569002     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.208     Document Type: Article

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