Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Qiu, Tian ^a,b   Lee, Tung Chun ^a   Mark, Andrew G ^a   Morozov, Konstantin I ^c   Münster, Raphael ^d   Mierka, Otto ^d   Turek, Stefan ^d   Leshansky, Alexander M ^c   Fischer, Peer ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MOTILITY; NEWTONIAN FLUID; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; VISCOSITY;

ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; MOTION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR RATE; VISCOSITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCALLOP; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL MOVEMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PECTINIDAE; SWIMMING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84921335706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6119     Document Type: Article

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