Swimming speeds of filaments in nonlinearly viscoelastic fluids
Swimming speeds of filaments in nonlinearly viscoelastic fluids
Many micro-organisms swim through gels and non-Newtonian fluids in their natural environments. In this paper, we focus on micro-organisms which use flagella for propulsion. We address how swimming velocities are affected in nonlinearly viscoelastic fluids by examining the problem of an infinitely long cylinder with arbitrary beating motion in the …