Taylor’s swimming sheet is a classical model of microscale propulsion and pumping. Many biological fluids and substances are fibrous, having a preferred direction in their microstructure; for example, cervical mucus is formed of polymer molecules which create an oriented fibrous network. Moreover, suspensions of elongated motile cells produce a form of active oriented matter. To understand how ...

INTRODUCTION the deep layers because they are softer, a result that is Articular cartilage is a biological composite material made of consistent with experimental evidence [5]. a proteoglycan matrix, and of chondrocyte and collagen fibre inclusions. We have modelled articular cartilage by means of a Implementation of this model into a Finite Element code linearly elastic Transversely Isotropic,...

A complete series of potential functions for solving the wave equations in an almost transversely isotropic media is presented. The potential functions are reduced to only one potential function particularly for axisymmetric wave propagation problems. The potential functions presented in this paper can be reduced to Lekhnitskii-Hu-Nowacki solution for elastostatics problems.