Parking 3-sphere swimmer II. The long arm asymptotic regime
Optimization and Control
2019-10-25 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
The paper carries on our previous investigations on the complementary version of Purcell's rotator: a low-Reynolds-number swimmer composed of three balls of equal radii. In the asymptotic regime of very long arms, the Stokes induced governing dynamics is derived and then experimented in the context of energy minimizing self-propulsion characterized in the first part of the paper.
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@article{arxiv.1910.10712,
title = {Parking 3-sphere swimmer II. The long arm asymptotic regime},
author = {François Alouges and Giovanni Di Fratta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10712},
year = {2019}
}