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20202026
most citedThe reaction-diffusion basis of animated patterns in eukaryotic flagella

36 citations · 44 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

The hydrodynamic Euler-elastica: shape transitions in the dynamical buckling of elastic filaments in Stokes flow

Clément Moreau, Laetitia Giraldi, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha

The buckling of elastic filaments in viscous fluids, ubiquitous in biological systems like flagella, microtubules, and DNA, has long been described by the static Euler-elastica. Ye…

physics.bio-ph2023

Swimming by spinning: spinning-top type rotations regularize sperm swimming into persistently symmetric paths in 3D

Xiaomeng Ren, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha

Sperm modulate their flagellar symmetry to navigate through complex physico-chemical environments and achieve reproductive function. Yet it remains elusive how sperm swim forwards…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 36 cited

The reaction-diffusion basis of animated patterns in eukaryotic flagella

James F. Cass, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadelha

We show that the flagellar beat of bull spermatozoa and Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii can be modelled by a minimal, geometrically nonlinear reaction-diffusion system. Model solutions a…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 8 cited

The 3D coarse-graining formulation of interacting elastohydrodynamic filaments and multi-body microhydrodynamics

Paul Fuchter, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha

Elastic filaments are vital to biological, physical and engineering systems, from cilia driving fluid in the lungs to artificial swimmers and micro-robotics. Simulating slender str…

math.OC2021

Controlling non-controllable scallops

Marta Zoppello, Marco Morandotti, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha

Any swimmer embedded on a inertialess fluid must perform a non-reciprocal motion to swim forward. The archetypal demonstration of this unique motion-constraint was introduced by Pu…

cond-mat.soft2020

Direct Measurement of Unsteady Microscale Stokes Flow Using Optically Driven Microspheres

Nicolas Bruot, Pietro Cicuta, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadelha +4

A growing body of work on the dynamics of eukaryotic flagella has noted that their oscillation frequencies are sufficiently high that the viscous penetration depth of unsteady Stok…