On the path and efficiency of two micromachines with rigid tails

DOI10.1007/BF00369937MaRDI QIDQ5961768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Nasseri, N. Phan-Thien

Publication date 11 February 1998

Published in Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00369937

zbMATH Keywords

headmicromachine locomotionpropulsive forcepropulsive torquetraction equationsvelocity diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

Review text

Two models of locomotion of micromachines immersed in a viscous fluid are investigated. Typical micromachines considered here consist of a head and a tail. The tail would either oscillate in a vertical plane or rotate conically relative to the head, inducing a propulsive force and propulsive torque on the head. Using the boundary element method for solving the traction equations, the authors obtain the velocity diagrams, paths of machine and the range of efficiency for these models.

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