In one of the first examples of how mechanics can inform axonemal mechanism, Machin's
study in the 1950s highlighted that observations of sperm motility cannot be explained by …

In this study, the injection of a viscoplastic (yield stress) fluid into a quiescent Newtonian
medium is experimentally investigated, using a range of experimental methods, including …

Every animal cell is filled with a cytoskeleton, a dynamic gel made of inextensible fibers,
such as microtubules, actin fibers, and intermediate filaments, all suspended in a viscous …

Flexible filaments and fibres are essential components of important complex fluids that
appear in many biological and industrial settings. Direct simulations of these systems that …

We present a generalisation of efficient numerical frameworks for modelling fluid–filament
interactions via the discretisation of a recently developed, non-local integral equation …

Well-posedness and applications of classical elastohydrodynamics for a swimming filament
Page 1 Nonlinearity PAPER • OPEN ACCESS Well-posedness and applications of classical …

Three-dimensional dynamics of flexible fibers in shear flow are studied numerically, with a
qualitative comparison to experiments. Initially, the fibers are straight, with different …

Artificial microswimmers, or 'microbots', have the potential to revolutionise non-invasive
medicine and microfluidics. Microbots that are powered by self-phoretic mechanisms, such …

We analyze the three-dimensional buckling of an elastic filament in a shear flow of a viscous
fluid at low Reynolds number and high Peclet number. We apply the Euler-Bernoulli beam …

Spermatozoa self-propel by propagating bending waves along a predominantly active
elastic flagellum. The organized structure of the 9+ 2 axoneme is lost in the most-distal few …