Abstract: The observed swimming behavior of a motile microorganism is the result of a complex interplay between mechanisms of internal force generation, passive elastic properties of its structure, and a surrounding viscous fluid. We will present a mathematical and computational model that is based upon the immersed boundary method - a general method developed to study the interactions of elastic objects with an incompressible fluid. Recent successes in the modeling of these coupled systems, with applications from ciliary beating to spirochete motility, will be presented.
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April 28 : Gene H Golub, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.
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