Authors: G P Alexander J M Yeomans
Publish Date: 2010/08/03
Volume: 50, Issue: 9, Pages: 1283-1292
Abstract
We consider the hydrodynamic interactions of low Reynolds number microswimmers presenting a review of recent work based upon models of linked sphere swimmers Particular attention is paid to those aspects that are generic applicable to all microswimmers and not only to the simple models considered The importance of the relative phase in swimmer–swimmer interactions is emphasised as is the role of simple symmetry arguments in both understanding and constraining the hydrodynamic properties of microswimmers
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