The fluid dynamics of cell motility
Fluid dynamics plays a crucial role in many cellular processes, including the locomotion of cells such as bacteria and spermatozoa. These organisms possess flagella, slender organelles whose time periodic motion in a fluid environment gives rise to motility. Sitting at the intersection of applied ma...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2020
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| Series: | Cambridge texts in applied mathematics
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Biological background
- The fluid dynamics of microscopic locomotion
- The waving sheet model
- The squirmer model
- Flagella and the physics of viscous propulsion
- Hydrodynamics of slender filaments
- Waving of eukaryotic flagella
- Rotation of bacterial flagellar filaments
- Flows and stresses induced by cells
- Swimming cells in flows
- Self-propulsion and surfaces
- Hydrodynamic synchronisation
- Diffusion and noisy swimming
- Hydrodynamics of collective locomotion
- Locomotion and transport in complex fluids