Unsteady chiral swimmer and its response to a chemical gradient

DOI10.1017/jfm.2022.239zbMath1493.76127OpenAlexW4224290358MaRDI QIDQ5068976

Ruma Rani Maity, P. Sekhar Burada

Publication date: 7 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.239

zbMATH Keywords

analytic solutionactive mattermigration velocityunsteady Stokes equationsmicro-organism dynamicsexternal chemical gradient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Biomechanics (92C10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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