Rough wall effect on micro-swimmers
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چکیده
We study the effect of a rough wall on the controllability of microswimmers made of several balls linked by thin jacks: the so-called 3-sphere and 4-sphere swimmers. Our work completes the previous work [4] dedicated to the effect of a flat wall. 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.
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