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Geometry of self-propulsion at low Reynolds number
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The problem of swimming at low Reynolds number is formulated in terms of a gauge field on the space of shapes. Effective methods for computing this field, by solving a linear boundary-value problem, are described. We employ conformal-mapping techniques to calculate swimming motions for cylinders with a variety of crosssections. We also determine the net translationl motion due to arbitrary infinitesimal deformations of a sphere.
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- Authors
- Shapere, A., & Wilczek, F.
- Venue
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1989-01
- Volume
- 198
- Pages
- 557-585
- ISSN
- 0022-1120 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7645
- OpenAlex
- W1981890426
- Cited by
- 391
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 0.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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