Journal article
Fluid dynamic models of flagellar and ciliary beating
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol.1101(1), pp.494-505
04/2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/113547
PMID: 17344534
Abstract
We have developed a fluid-mechanical model of a eucaryotic axoneme that couples the internal force generation of dynein molecular motors, the passive elastic mechanics of microtubules, and forces due to nexin links with a surrounding incompressible fluid. This model has been used to examine both ciliary beating and flagellar motility. In this article, we show preliminary simulation results for sperm motility in both viscous and viscoelastic fluids, as well as multiciliary interaction with a mucus layer.
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- Title
- Fluid dynamic models of flagellar and ciliary beating
- Creators
- Robert H Dillon - Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA. dillon@math.wsu.eduLisa J FauciCharlotte OmotoXingzhou Yang
- Publication Details
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol.1101(1), pp.494-505
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics and Statistics, Department of
- Publisher
- United States
- Identifiers
- 99900548192101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article