2015/07/20 by Qixuan Wang, Hans G. Othmer, Wang, Qixuan +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM) #physics.flu-dyn #q-bio.CB #q-bio.QM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.08296
arxiv created 2015/07/20 · arxiv updated 2015/07/31
Swimming by shape changes at low Reynolds number is widely used in biology and understanding how the efficiency of movement depends on the geometric pattern of shape changes is important to understand swimming of microorganisms and in designing low Reynolds number swimming models. The simplest models of shape changes are those that comprise a series of linked spheres that can change their separation and/or their size. Herein we compare the efficiency of three models in which these modes are used in different ways.