Parking 3-sphere swimmer: II. The long-arm asymptotic regime

Eur Phys J E Soft Matter. 2020 Feb 4;43(2):6. doi: 10.1140/epje/i2020-11932-5.

Abstract

The paper carries on our previous investigations on the complementary version of Purcell's rotator (sPr3): 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.

Keywords: Living systems: Biomimetic Systems.