On the path and efficiency of two micromachines with rigid tails

DOI10.1007/BF00369937zbMATH Open0880.76019OpenAlexW1964088699MaRDI QIDQ5961768FDOQ5961768

N. Phan-Thien, S. H. Nasseri

Publication date: 11 February 1998

Published in: Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00369937

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zbMATH Keywords

propulsive forceheadmicromachine locomotionpropulsive torquetraction equationsvelocity diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

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