Undulatory locomotion of finite filaments: lessons fromCaenorhabditis elegans
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Undulatory locomotion of finite filaments: lessons from Caenorhabditis elegans
Undulatory swimming is a widespread propulsion strategy adopted by many small-scale organisms including various single-cell eukaryotes and nematodes. In this work, we report a comprehensive study of undulatory locomotion of a finite filament using (i) approximate resistive force theory (RFT) assuming a local nature of hydrodynamic interaction between the filament and the surrounding viscous liq...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: New Journal of Physics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/7/075022