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The cost of swimming in generalized Newtonian fluids: Experiments with C. elegans
David A. Gagnon, Paulo E. Arratia
Numerous natural processes are contingent on microorganisms' ability to swim through fluids with non-Newtonian rheology. Here, we use the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and…
Characterizing Elastic Turbulence in Channel Flows at Low Reynolds number
Boyang Qin, Paulo E. Arratia
We experimentally investigate the flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a parallel shear geometry at low Reynolds number. As the flow becomes unstable via a nonlinear subcritical instabi…
Flow analysis of the low-Reynolds number swimmer C. elegans
Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson, David A. Gagnon, Paulo E. Arratia +1
Swimming cells and microorganisms are a critical component of many biological processes. In order to better interpret experimental studies of low Reynolds number swimming, we combi…