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physics.bio-ph2010★ 169 cited
Swimming speeds of filaments in nonlinearly viscoelastic fluids
Henry C. Fu, Charles W. Wolgemuth, Thomas R. Powers
Many microorganisms swim through gels and non-Newtonian fluids in their natural environments. In this paper, we focus on microorganisms which use flagella for propulsion. We addres…
physics.bio-ph2009★ 53 cited
Kinematics of the swimming of Spiroplasma
Jing Yang, Charles W. Wolgemuth, Greg Huber
\emph{Spiroplasma} swimming is studied with a simple model based on resistive-force theory. Specifically, we consider a bacterium shaped in the form of a helix that propagates trav…