| dc.contributor.author |
Lauga, Eric |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Hosoi, A.E. |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2007-05-04T18:15:06Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2007-05-04T18:15:06Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2007-05-04T18:15:06Z |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37326 |
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| dc.description |
Submitted to Phys. Fluids. |
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| dc.description.abstract |
Common gastropods such as snails crawl on a solid substrate by propagating muscular waves of shear stress on a viscoelastic mucus. Producing the mucus accounts for the largest component in the gastropod’s energy budget, more than twenty times the amount of mechanical work used in crawling. Using a simple mechanical model, we show that the shear-thinnning properties of the mucus favor
a decrease in the amount of mucus necessary for crawling, thereby decreasing the overall energetic cost of locomotion. |
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| dc.description.sponsorship |
NSF and Hock Tan Postdoctoral Fellowship |
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| dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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| dc.relation.ispartofseries |
06-P-02 |
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| dc.subject |
Gastropod locomotion |
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| dc.subject |
Optimization |
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| dc.subject |
Rheology |
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| dc.subject |
Snails |
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| dc.title |
Tuning Gastropod Locomotion: Modeling The Influence Of Mucus Rheology on the Cost of Crawling |
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| dc.type |
Preprint |
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