Metachronal wave formation in a model of pulmonary cilia.

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Published in Comput Struct on January 01, 2007

Authors

Sorin M Mitran1

Author Affiliations

1: Applied Mathematics Program, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3250, United States.

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