Question: Problem 2 ( 32 pts -8 pts each) - Consider each of the following motile organisms. For each case, estimate the Reynold's number of the

 Problem 2 ( 32 pts -8 pts each) - Consider each

Problem 2 ( 32 pts -8 pts each) - Consider each of the following motile organisms. For each case, estimate the Reynold's number of the flow past the organism for its typical speed, estimate the dimensionless drag coefficient CD, and state whether you predict the flow to be laminar or turbulent (approximate each as a sphere). List the values and their sources of any parameters you use, and list any obvious limitations in each case by modeling the flow as flow past a sphere. 1. E. coli swimming in warm pool water at 30C. 2. Blue whale swimming in the ocean at 10C. 3. Listeria monocytogenes bacterium propelled by actin-based motility in a living cell's cytoplasm. 4. A swimming copepod Temora longicornis in ocean water at 5C

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