Session R21: Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics
2:30 PM–5:18 PM, Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Baltimore Convention Center Room: 318
Sponsoring Units:
DFD DBP
Chair: Ray Goldstein, University of Arizona
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.MAR.R21.2
Abstract: R21.00002 : Elastic swimming I: Optimization
3:06 PM–3:18 PM
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Abstract 
Authors:
Eric Lauga
Tony Yu
Anette Hosoi
(MIT)
We consider the problem of swimming at low Reynolds number by oscillating an elastic filament in a viscous liquid, as investigated by Wiggins and Goldstein (1998, Phys Rev Lett). In this first part of the study, we characterize the optimal forcing conditions of the swimming strategy and its optimal geometrical characteristics.
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