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Stirring by swimming bodies
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Stephen Childress
We consider the stirring of an inviscid fluid caused by the locomotion of bodies through it. The swimmers are approximated by non-interacting cylinders or spheres moving steadily a…
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Vortex shedding and hovering of a rigid body in an oscillating flow
Bin Liu, Annie Weathers, Stephen Childress +1
The fluid dynamics video shows rigid, spatially asymmetric bodies interacting with oscillating background flows. A free rigid object, here a hollow "pyramid," can hover quite stabl…