Hydrodynamics of slender flexible filaments plays an important role in biology, human
physiology, locomotion of organisms, as well as biomedical devices. It is, therefore …

Slender fibres are ubiquitous in biology, physics and engineering, with prominent examples
including bacterial flagella and cytoskeletal fibres. In this setting, slender body theories …

The motion of filament-like structures in fluid media has been a topic of interest since long. In
this regard, a well known slender body theory exists, wherein the fluid flow is assumed to be …

The viscous drag on a slender rod by a wall is important to many biological and industrial
systems. This drag critically depends on the separation between the rod and the wall and …

Resolving the detailed hydrodynamics of a slender body immersed in highly viscous
Newtonian fluid has been the subject of extensive research, applicable to a broad range of …

We consider the mapping properties of the integral operator arising in nonlocal slender body
theory (SBT) for the model geometry of a straight, periodic filament. It is well known that the …

An ideal collision rate (ICR) is defined as the average rate of contact between two particles
that translate and rotate with the imposed fluid flow in the absence of interparticle …

The rheology of suspensions of rings (tori) rotating in an unbounded low Reynolds number
simple shear flow is calculated using numerical simulations at dilute particle number …

Over a sufficiently long period of time, or from an appropriate distance, the motion of many
swimmers can appear smooth, with their trajectories appearing almost ballistic in nature and …

A self-aligning particle (SAP) attains a permanent orientation without application of external
torques in a low Reynolds number simple shear flow in contrast with the continuous rotation …