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Nelineinaya Dinamika [Russian Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics], 2011, Volume 7, Number 2, Pages 371–387 (Mi nd264)  

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Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms

Sir Geoffrey Taylor
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Abstract: Large objects which propel themselves in air or water make use of inertia in the surrounding fluid. The propulsive organ pushes the fluid backwards, while the resistance of the body gives the fluid a forward momentum. The forward and backward momenta exactly balance, but the propulsive organ and the resistance can be thought about as acting separately. This conception cannot be transferred to problems of propulsion in microscopic bodies for which the stresses due to viscosity may be many thousands of times as great as those due to inertia. No case of self-propulsion in a viscous fluid due to purely viscous forces seems to have been discussed.
The motion of a fluid near a sheet down which waves of lateral displacement are propagated is described. It is found that the sheet moves forwards at a rate $2\pi^2b^2/\lambda^2$ times the velocity of propagation of the waves. Here b is the amplitude and $\lambda$ the wave-length. This analysis seems to explain how a propulsive tail can move a body through a viscous fluid without relying on reaction due to inertia. The energy dissipation and stress in the tail are also calculated.
The work is extended to explore the reaction between the tails of two neighbouring small organisms with propulsive tails. It is found that if the waves down neighbouring tails are in phase very much less energy is dissipated in the fluid between them than when the waves are in opposite phase. It is also found that when the phase of the wave in one tail lags behind that in the other there is a strong reaction, due to the viscous stress in the fluid between them, which tends to force the two wave trains into phase. It is in fact observed that the tails of spermatozoa wave in unison when they are close to one another and pointing the same way.
Document Type: Article
Language: Russian
Citation: Sir Geoffrey Taylor, “Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms”, Nelin. Dinam., 7:2 (2011), 371–387
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\by Sir Geoffrey Taylor
\paper Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms
\jour Nelin. Dinam.
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\vol 7
\issue 2
\pages 371--387
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