On viscous propulsion in active transversely isotropic media

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.647zbMATH Open1415.76790OpenAlexW2887180126MaRDI QIDQ4690201FDOQ4690201

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

Publication date: 22 October 2018

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

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

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zbMATH Keywords

propulsionswimming/flyingmicro-organism dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms
• Viscous propulsion in active transversely isotropic media

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• Anisotropic swimming and reorientation of an undulatory microswimmer in liquid-crystalline polymers
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• Oriented suspension mechanics with application to improving flow linear dichroism spectroscopy

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