Crawling Beneath the Free Surface: Water Snail Locomotion
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Sungyon Lee, John W. M. Bush, A. E. Hosoi, and Eric Lauga 1 Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 2 Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 3 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Cambridge, La Jolla CA 92093-0411 (Dated: June 23, 2008)
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