164 citations
3 papers
cond-mat.soft2008★ 99 cited
Beating patterns of filaments in viscoelastic fluids
Henry C. Fu, Charles W. Wolgemuth, Thomas R. Powers
Many swimming microorganisms, such as bacteria and sperm, use flexible flagella to move through viscoelastic media in their natural environments. In this paper we address the effec…
cond-mat.soft2007★ 164 cited
Theory of swimming filaments in viscoelastic media
Henry C. Fu, Thomas R. Powers, Charles W. Wolgemuth
Motivated by the swimming of sperm in the non-Newtonian fluids of the female mammalian reproductive tract, we examine the swimming of filaments in the nonlinear viscoelastic Upper…
cond-mat.soft2007★ 36 cited
Vesicle shape, molecular tilt, and the suppression of necks
Hongyuan Jiang, Greg Huber, Robert A. Pelcovits +1
Can the presence of molecular-tilt order significantly affect the shapes of lipid bilayer membranes, particularly membrane shapes with narrow necks? Motivated by the propensity for…