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BIOLOGICAL FLUID MECHANICS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN BLAKE

Part of: Biological fluid mechanics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

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DAVID J. SMITH*
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School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK email D.J.Smith@bham.ac.uk
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John Blake (1947–2016) was a leader in fluid mechanics, his two principal areas of expertise being biological fluid mechanics on microscopic scales and bubble dynamics. He produced leading research and mentored others in both Australia, his home country, and the UK, his adopted home. This article reviews John Blake’s contributions in biological fluid mechanics, as well as gives the author’s personal viewpoint as one of the many graduate students and researchers who benefitted from his supervision, guidance and inspiration. The key topics from biological mechanics discussed are: “squirmer” models of protozoa, the method of images in Stokes flow and the “blakelet” solution, discrete cilia modelling via slender body theory, physiological flows in respiration and reproduction, blinking stokeslets in microorganism feeding, human sperm motility and embryonic nodal cilia.

Keywords

ciliaflagellaStokes flowslender bodystokesletswimmingpropulsionfeedingchaotic advectionmucus

MSC classification

Primary: 76Z10: Biopropulsion in water and in air
Secondary: 76Z05: Physiological flows
Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , April 2018 , pp. 416 - 442
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Society 

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