Hydrodynamic study of sperm swimming near a wall based on the immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method

This paper presents a numerical study on a sperm swimming in a viscous fluid by using an immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM). The sperm is modeled simply by integrating a slender tail and an elliptical head. By applying a tail traveling wave vertical to the wall, a sperm swims near a...

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Main Authors: Qiong-Yao Liu, Xiao-Ying Tang, Duan-Duan Chen, Yuan-Qing Xu, Fang-Bao Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2020.1779134