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Optimal swimmer can be puller, pusher, or neutral depending on the shape
Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider, Babak Nasouri, Andrej Vilfan +1
The ability of microswimmers to deploy optimal propulsion strategies is of paramount importance for their locomotory performance and survival at low Reynolds numbers. Although for…
Minimum Dissipation Theorem for Microswimmers
Babak Nasouri, Andrej Vilfan, Ramin Golestanian
We derive a theorem for the lower bound on the energy dissipation rate by a rigid surface-driven active microswimmer of arbitrary shape in a fluid at low Reynolds number. We show t…
Exact phoretic interaction of two chemically-active particles
Babak Nasouri, Ramin Golestanian
We study the nonequilibrium interaction of two isotropic chemically-active particles taking into account the exact near-field chemical interactions as well as hydrodynamic interact…
Efficiency limits of the three-sphere swimmer
Babak Nasouri, Andrej Vilfan, Ramin Golestanian
We consider a swimmer consisting of a collinear assembly of three spheres connected by two slender rods. This swimmer can propel itself forward by varying the lengths of the rods i…
Two-sphere swimmers in viscoelastic fluids
Charu Datt, Babak Nasouri, Gwynn J. Elfring
We examine swimmers comprising of two rigid spheres which oscillate periodically along their axis of symmetry, considering both when the oscillation is in phase and anti-phase, and…
Dynamics of poroelastocapillary rise
Babak Nasouri, Benjamin Thorne, Gwynn J. Elfring
A wetting liquid is driven through a thin gap due to surface tension and when the gap boundaries are elastic, the liquid deforms the gap as it rises. But when the fluid boundaries…