On viscous propulsion in active transversely isotropic media

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.647MaRDI QIDQ4690201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Cupples, R. J. Dyson, David J. Smith

Publication date 22 October 2018

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.647

zbMATH Keywords

propulsionswimming/flyingmicro-organism dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biophysics (92C05) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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