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Passively parallel regularized stokeslets
Meurig T. Gallagher, David J. Smith
Stokes flow, discussed by G.G. Stokes in 1851, describes many microscopic biological flow phenomena, including cilia-driven transport and flagellar motility; the need to quantify a…
Doing more with less: the flagellar end piece enhances the propulsive effectiveness of human spermatozoa
Cara V. Neal, Atticus L. Hall-McNair, Jackson Kirkman-Brown +2
Spermatozoa self-propel by propagating bending waves along a predominantly active elastic flagellum. The organized structure of the "9 + 2" axoneme is lost in the most-distal few m…
Efficient Implementation of Elastohydrodynamics via Integral Operators
Atticus L. Hall-McNair, Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson, Hermes Gadelha +2
The dynamics of geometrically non-linear flexible filaments play an important role in a host of biological processes, from flagella-driven cell transport to the polymeric structure…
Non-identifiability of parameters for a class of shear-thinning rheological models, with implications for haematological fluid dynamics
Meurig T. Gallagher, Richard A. J. Wain, Sonia Dari +2
Choosing a suitable model and determining its associated parameters from fitting to experimental data is fundamental for many problems in biomechanics. Models of shear-thinning com…
Modelling pulsatile blood flow through surgically coupled microvascular anastomoses
Meurig T. Gallagher
The significant rates of post-operative arterial thrombus formation following the sutured anastomosis (surgical connection) of vessels in microvascular reconstruction has kindled t…