Three-sphere swimmer in a nonlinear viscoelastic medium
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Three-sphere swimmer in a nonlinear viscoelastic medium.
A simple model for a swimmer consisting of three colinearly linked spheres attached by rods and oscillating out of phase to break reciprocal motion is analyzed. With a prescribed forcing of the rods acting on the three spheres, the swimming dynamics are determined analytically in both a Newtonian Stokes fluid and a zero Reynolds number, nonlinear, Oldroyd-B viscoelastic fluid with Deborah numbe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.043006