Physics of rheologically enhanced propulsion: Different strokes in generalized Stokes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Montenegro Johnson, Thomas D ^a,b   Smith, David J ^a,b,c   Loghin, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; DECAY (ORGANIC); ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KINEMATICS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PROPULSION; SHEAR THINNING;

APPARENT VISCOSITY; BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS; KINEMATIC SENSITIVITIES; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SCALLOP THEOREMS; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; SHEAR-THINNING RHEOLOGY;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84883431325     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4818640     Document Type: Article

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