A note on swimming using internally generated traveling waves

DOI10.1063/1.869991zbMath1147.76303OpenAlexW1972464441MaRDI QIDQ3539037

Howard A. Stone, Armand Ajdari

Publication date: 17 November 2008

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.869991

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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Cites Work

• A spherical envelope approach to ciliary propulsion
• Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms
• On the squirming motion of nearly spherical deformable bodies through liquids at very small reynolds numbers

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