Expansions at small Reynolds numbers for the locomotion of a spherical squirmer

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Khair, Aditya S ^a   Chisholm, Nicholas G ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VORTICITY;

MATCHED ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; MODEL ORGANISMS; SELF-PROPULSION; SWIMMING VELOCITIES; TANGENTIAL MOVEMENT; VORTICITY FIELD;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 84905160419     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4859375     Document Type: Article

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