Browsing Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy by Author "Riley, Emily E"
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Enhanced active swimming in viscoelastic fluids
Riley, Emily E; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie (IOP PublishingEurophysics Letters, 2014-11-05)Swimming microorganisms often self-propel in fluids with complex rheology. While past theoretical work indicates that fluid viscoelasticity should hinder their locomotion, recent experiments on waving swimmers suggest a ...
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Small-amplitude swimmers can self-propel faster in viscoelastic fluids
Riley, Emily E; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie (ElsevierJournal of Theoretical Biology, 2015-07-08)Many small organisms self-propel in viscous fluids using travelling wave-like deformations of their bodies or appendages. Examples include small nematodes moving through soil using whole-body undulations or spermatozoa ...