An introduction to the hydrodynamics of locomotion on small scales

2014/03/17 by Lauga, Eric
#Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1403.4093

Abstract

In these lecture notes, I will briefly review the fundamental physical principles of locomotion in fluids, with a particular emphasis on the low-Reynolds number world.

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