{ "id": "1602.01249", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-02-03T10:23:27.000Z", "updated": "2016-02-03T10:23:27.000Z", "title": "Stokesian swimming of a sphere at low Reynolds number", "authors": [ "B. U. Felderhof", "R. B. Jones" ], "comment": "11 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1601.00755", "categories": [ "physics.flu-dyn" ], "abstract": "Explicit expressions are derived for the matrices determining the mean translational and rotational swimming velocities and the mean rate of dissipation for Stokesian swimming at low Reynolds number of a distorting sphere in a viscous incompressible fluid. As an application an efficient helical propeller-type stroke is found and its properties are calculated.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-02-03T10:23:27.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "low reynolds number", "stokesian swimming", "efficient helical propeller-type stroke", "mean translational", "rotational swimming velocities" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2016arXiv160201249F" } } }