For more information about this meeting, contact Alexei Novikov.
| Title: | Inertial swimming as a singular perturbation |
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| Seminar: | Applied Analysis Seminar |
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| Speaker: | Steve Childress, Courant, NYU |
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| Abstract: |
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| We revisit the classic problem of swimming of a sheet studied by G.I. Taylor in Stokes flow. At finite and large
Reynold number Taylor's result is modified. The known results are reexamined for large Reynolds number using boundary-layer theory, and the nature of the expansions is clarified for wave-like motions of the sheet.
We apply this approach to recoil swimming, a mechanism of locomotion that is known to work in a perfect fluid,
thus extending the theory to a slightly viscous fluid. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB106 |
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| Date: | 04 / 21 / 2009 |
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| Time: | 03:50pm - 04:50pm |
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