Cilia internal mechanism and metachronal coordination as the result of hydrodynamical coupling

DOI10.1073/pnas.94.12.6001zbMath0897.92009OpenAlexW2133604588WikidataQ36176329 ScholiaQ36176329MaRDI QIDQ4350895

Nadav Liron, Shay Gueron, J. J. Blum, Konstantin Levit-Gurevich

Publication date: 24 September 1998

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.94.12.6001

zbMATH Keywords

wave patternmetachronismciliary motionhydrodynamical interactionsarrays of ciliamulticilia configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biophysics (92C05) Physiology (general) (92C30)

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Cites Work

• The behavior of rings of coupled oscillators
• Stokes flow due to infinite arrays of stokeslets in three dimensions
• Frequency Plateaus in a Chain of Weakly Coupled Oscillators, I.
• The discrete-cilia approach to propulsion of ciliated micro-organisms

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