Floppy swimming: Viscous locomotion of actuated elastica
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Floppy swimming: viscous locomotion of actuated elastica.
Actuating periodically an elastic filament in a viscous liquid generally breaks the constraints of Purcell's scallop theorem, resulting in the generation of a net propulsive force. This observation suggests a method to design simple swimming devices-which we call "elastic swimmers"-where the actuation mechanism is embedded in a solid body and the resulting swimmer is free to move. In this paper...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.041916