Passive swimming in low-Reynolds-number flows
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Passive swimming in low-Reynolds-number flows.
The possibility of microscopic swimming by extraction of energy from an external flow is discussed, focusing on the migration of a simple trimer across a linear shear flow. The geometric properties of swimming, together with the possible generalization to the case of a vesicle, are analyzed. The mechanism of energy extraction from the flow appears to be the generalization to a discrete swimmer ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.015302