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physics.flu-dyn2015★ 20 cited
Minimal model for transient swimming in a liquid crystal
Madison S. Krieger, Marcelo A. Dias, Thomas R. Powers
When a microorganism begins swimming from rest in a Newtonian fluid such as water, it rapidly attains its steady-state swimming speed since changes in the velocity field spread qui…
physics.flu-dyn2013★ 26 cited
Swimming near Deformable Membranes at Low Reynolds Number
Marcelo A. Dias, Thomas R. Powers
Microorganisms are rarely found in Nature swimming freely in an unbounded fluid. Instead, they typically encounter other organisms, hard walls, or deformable boundaries such as fre…