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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Friday, March 28, 11:30 am
Cullimore Lecture Hall II
New Jersey Institute of Technology

`Life at Low Reynolds Number' Revisited

Thomas Powers

Division of Engineering

Brown University

Providence, RI

Abstract

At the scale of a cell, viscous effects dominate and inertia is unimportant. We discuss what it is like to swim in the overdamped regime, using a few simple problems to illustrate the physics of fluid-structure interactions for a slender body, hydrodynamic synchronization, and propulsion in a viscoelastic fluid.