Taylor's swimming sheet: analysis and improvement of the perturbation series

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2011.06.023zbMATH Open1431.76164arXiv1302.4029OpenAlexW2170922191MaRDI QIDQ651180FDOQ651180

Authors: Martin Sauzade, Gwynn J. Elfring, Eric Lauga 

Publication date: 8 December 2011

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In G.I. Taylor's historic paper on swimming microorganisms, a two dimensional sheet was proposed as a model for flagellated cells passing traveling waves as a means of locomotion. Using a perturbation series, Taylor computed swimming speeds up to fourth order in amplitude. Here we systematize that expansion so that it can be carried out formally to arbitrarily high order. The resultant series diverges for an order one value of the wave amplitude, but may be transformed into series with much improved convergence properties and which yield results comparing favorably to those obtained numerically via a boundary integral method for moderate and large values of the wave amplitudes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4029

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zbMATH Keywords

fluid mechanicsStokes flowbiophysicsperturbation seriesswimming microorganisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

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