Rough wall effect on micro-swimmers

DOI10.1051/COCV/2014046zbMATH Open1315.93015arXiv1309.7819OpenAlexW2963792758MaRDI QIDQ5262295FDOQ5262295

Laetitia Giraldi, David Gérard-Varet

Publication date: 13 July 2015

Published in: ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the effect of a rough wall on the controllability of micro-swimmers made of several balls linked by thin jacks: the so-called 3-sphere and 4-sphere swimmers. We show that a controllable swimmer (the 4-sphere swimmer) is not impacted by the roughness. On the contrary, we show that the roughness changes the dynamics of the 3-sphere swimmer, so that it can reach any direction almost everywhere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7819

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansioncontrol theoryLie bracketsself-propulsionthree-sphere swimmerlow-Reynolds number swimmingrough wall effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Controllability (93B05) PDEs in connection with control and optimization (35Q93)

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