Fluid mixing by curved trajectories of microswimmers

Dmitri O Pushkin1, Julia M Yeomans

  • 1The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom.

Physical Review Letters
|November 19, 2013
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