A simulation study of the dynamics of a driven filament in an Aristotelian fluid

DOI10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00159-0zbMATH Open1464.92028arXivphysics/0208022WikidataQ52010695 ScholiaQ52010695MaRDI QIDQ2177348FDOQ2177348

Authors: M. C. Lagomarsino, F. Capuani, C. P. Lowe 

Publication date: 6 May 2020

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a method, based on techniques used in molecular dynamics, for simulating the inertialess dynamics of an elastic filament immersed in a fluid. The model is used to study the "one-armed swimmer". That is, a flexible appendage externally perturbed at one extremity. For small amplitude motion our simulations confirm theoretical predictions that, for a filament of given length and stiffness, there is a driving frequency that is optimal for both speed and efficiency. However, we find that to calculate absolute values of the swimming speed we need to slightly modify existing theoretical approaches. For the more realistic case of large amplitude motion we find that while the basic picture remains the same, the dependence of the swimming speed on both frequency and amplitude is substantially modified. For realistic amplitudes we show that the one armed swimmer is comparatively neither inefficient nor slow. This begs the question, why are there little or no one armed swimmers in nature?

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0208022

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zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicslow Reynolds numbermicroorganism motilityelastic filament

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanics (92C10) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10) Microbiology (92C70)

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