A porous prolate-spheroidal model for ciliated micro-organisms

DOI10.1017/S0022112077001669zbMATH Open0352.76080MaRDI QIDQ4123039FDOQ4123039

Authors: Stuart R. Keller, Theodore Yao-Tsu Wu 

Publication date: 1977

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

Cites Work

• A spherical envelope approach to ciliary propulsion
• An oscillating-boundary-layer theory for ciliary propulsion
• Infinite models for ciliary propulsion
• A model for the micro-structure in ciliated organisms

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• Optimal swimmers can be pullers, pushers or neutral depending on the shape
• Mathematical model for unsteady ciliary propulsion
• Slender axisymmetric Stokesian swimmers
• Optimal slip velocities of micro-swimmers with arbitrary axisymmetric shapes
• Controllability properties of a class of systems modeling swimming microscopic organisms
• Arbitrary axisymmetric steady streaming: flow, force and propulsion
• Problems and progress in microswimming
• Stick-slip squirmers: slip asymmetry can qualitatively change self-swimming characteristics of squirmers
• On the rotation of porous ellipsoids in simple shear flows
• Self-propulsion of \(N\)-hinged `animats' at low Reynolds number
• A control theoretic approach to the swimming of microscopic organisms
• Swimming efficiency in viscosity gradients
• Mathematical model for the propulsion of a ciliated micro-organism with differential spin
• The effect of particle geometry on squirming in a heterogeneous medium
• The effect of particle geometry on squirming through a shear-thinning fluid
• Self-diffusiophoretic propulsion of a spheroidal particle in a shear-thinning fluid
• Hydrodynamics of self-propulsion near a boundary: predictions and accuracy of far-field approximations
• Influence of heterogeneity or shape on the locomotion of a caged squirmer

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