Well-posedness of a viscoelastic resistive force theory and applications to swimming

DOI10.1007/S00332-024-10051-5MaRDI QIDQ6599768zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Laurel Ohm

Publication date 6 September 2024

Published in Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

viscoelasticcurve evolutionmicroswimmerresistive force theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Biomechanics (92C10) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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Cited in

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• On an angle-averaged Neumann-to-Dirichlet map for thin filaments

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