An introduction to the hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

This manuscript is a summary of a set of lectures given at the Geilo School 2013 Soft Matter Confinement: from Biology to Physics. It aims to provide an introduction to the hydrodynamics that underlies the way in which microorganisms, such as bacteria and algae, and fabricated microswimmers, swim. W...

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Main Authors: Yeomans, J, Pushkin, DO, Shum, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer Verlag 2014