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Vortex arrays and ciliary tangles underlie the feeding–swimming ...

Dec 19, 2016 ... We find these patterns in both freely swimming animals and animals ... a fixed energy budget, since the swimmer either dissipates energy due ...

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How Jellyfish Became the Ocean's Most Efficient Swimmers ...

May 1, 2016 ... Jellyfish manipulate physics to become the most efficient animals ... They are more efficient than any other swimmer, using less energy for ...

www.scientificamerican.com
Schistosoma mansoni cercariae swim efficiently by exploiting an ...

Oct 31, 2016 ... Grey regions (1 → 2,3 → 4 and so on) correspond to power strokes where the body of the organism has a tangential velocity in the mean swimming ...

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How lagging swimmers can use physics to get ahead

Jan 25, 2019 ... The trailing swimmers conserve energy by riding on the leader's bow wave, the V-shaped wave created as an athlete cuts through the water.

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Scaling macroscopic aquatic locomotion | Nature Physics

Sep 14, 2014 ... Inertial aquatic swimmers that use undulatory gaits range in length L ... This principle can be simply couched as the power law Re ∼ Swα, ...

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Flagellar Kinematics and Swimming of Algal Cells in Viscoelastic ...

Mar 17, 2015 ... Despite these enhancements, the net swimming speed of the alga is hindered for ... of elastic stresses during the power and recovery strokes.

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Self-transport of swimming bacteria is impaired by porous ...

Jan 24, 2023 ... An overarching assumption in describing swimming cell transport in ... 10 mM of energy source), 5.6 mL; and 0.8 M NaHCO3 (autoclaved dry; ...

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Swimming against the tide | Nature

Mar 16, 2016 ... One of Okayama's strengths is in physics, from high-energy physics to its geophysical research institute. The latter's expertise is also ...

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Swimming Bacteria Power Microscopic Gears

Feynman RP (1963) The Feynman lectures on physics (Addison-Wesley, Reading). 2. Van den Broeck C, Kawai R, Meurs P (2004) Microscopic analysis of a thermal ...

www.jstor.org
Swimming droplets driven by a surface wave | Scientific Reports

Feb 24, 2015 ... Deformation and energy dissipation are required for self-propulsion of both living and non-living matter. From the perspective of physics, ...

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AI-Generated Project Ideas

  1. Investigating the Physics of Swimming Efficiency
  2. Analyze Energy Consumption of Everyday Electronics
  3. Design and Build a Hydroelectric Generator to Power a Small Device
  4. Explore the Physics of Renewable Energy Sources like Wind Turbines or Solar Panels