Emergent rheotaxis of shape-changing swimmers in Poiseuille flow

DOI10.1017/jfm.2022.474OpenAlexW4283462967MaRDI QIDQ5085803

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Publication date: 30 June 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12516

zbMATH Keywords

multiple-scale asymptotic analysismicro-organism dynamicseffective hydrodynamic shapelong-term driftoscillatory speed

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Biomechanics (92C10) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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