Swimming in slime
The purpose of this thesis is to study the problem of a low Reynolds number swimmer that is in very close proximity to a wall or solid boundary in a non- Newtonian fluid. We assume that it moves by propagating waves down its length in one direction, creating a thrust and therefore propelling it in t...
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University of British Columbia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1503 |