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Effective extensional-torsional elasticity and dynamics of helical filaments under distributed loads
Michael Gomez, Eric Lauga
We study slender, helical elastic rods subject to distributed forces and moments. Focussing on the case when the helix axis remains straight, we employ the method of multiple scale…
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Biophysical Fluid Dynamics in a Petri Dish
George T. Fortune, Eric Lauga, Raymond E. Goldstein
The humble Petri dish is perhaps the simplest setting in which to examine the locomotion of swimming organisms, particularly those whose body size is tens of microns to millimetres…