A new continuum model for suspensions of gyrotactic micro-organisms

DOI10.1017/S0022112090001914zbMath0695.76056WikidataQ52424405 ScholiaQ52424405MaRDI QIDQ3471789

Timothy J. Pedley, J. O. Kessler

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equation; dilute suspensions of swimming micro-organisms with asymmetric mass distributions; rotational Brownian motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J65: Brownian motion

92C05: Biophysics

76Z10: Biopropulsion in water and in air

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