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Stokesian swimming of a sphere at low Reynolds number

Fluid Dynamics 2016-02-04 v1

Abstract

Explicit expressions are derived for the matrices determining the mean translational and rotational swimming velocities and the mean rate of dissipation for Stokesian swimming at low Reynolds number of a distorting sphere in a viscous incompressible fluid. As an application an efficient helical propeller-type stroke is found and its properties are calculated.

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@article{arxiv.1602.01249,
  title  = {Stokesian swimming of a sphere at low Reynolds number},
  author = {B. U. Felderhof and R. B. Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01249},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1601.00755