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Regularized Stokeslets lines suitable for slender bodies in viscous flow (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, B., & Koens, L. (2021). Regularized Stokeslets lines suitable for slender bodies in viscous flow. Fluids, 6(9), Article 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids6090335

Slender-body approximations have been successfully used to explain many phenomena in low-Reynolds number fluid mechanics. These approximations typically use a line of singularity solutions to represent flow. These singularities can be difficult to im... Read More about Regularized Stokeslets lines suitable for slender bodies in viscous flow.

Local drag of a slender rod parallel to a plane wall in a viscous fluid (2021)
Journal Article
Koens, L., & Montenegro-Johnson, T. D. (2021). Local drag of a slender rod parallel to a plane wall in a viscous fluid. Physical Review Fluids, 6(6), Article 064101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.064101

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 can be approximated asymptotically in specific regimes, namely far fro... Read More about Local drag of a slender rod parallel to a plane wall in a viscous fluid.

Geometric phase methods with Stokes theorem for a general viscous swimmer (2021)
Journal Article
Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2021). Geometric phase methods with Stokes theorem for a general viscous swimmer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 916, Article A17. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.181

The geometric phase techniques for swimming in viscous flows express the net displacement of a swimmer as a path integral of a field in configuration space. This representation can be transformed into an area integral for simple swimmers using the St... Read More about Geometric phase methods with Stokes theorem for a general viscous swimmer.