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Soft swimming: Exploiting deformable interfaces for low-Reynolds number locomotion
Renaud Trouilloud, Tony S. Yu, A. E. Hosoi +1
Reciprocal movement cannot be used for locomotion at low-Reynolds number in an infinite fluid or near a rigid surface. Here we show that this limitation is relaxed for a body perfo…
Crawling beneath the free surface: Water snail locomotion
Sungyon Lee, John W. M. Bush, A. E. Hosoi +1
Land snails move via adhesive locomotion. Through muscular contraction and expansion of their foot, they transmit waves of shear stress through a thin layer of mucus onto a solid s…
Hydrodynamic attraction of swimming microorganisms by surfaces
Allison P. Berke, Linda Turner, Howard C. Berg +1
Cells swimming in confined environments are attracted by surfaces. We measure the steady-state distribution of smooth-swimming bacteria (Escherichia coli) between two glass plates.…
No many-scallop theorem: Collective locomotion of reciprocal swimmers
Eric Lauga, Denis Bartolo
To achieve propulsion at low Reynolds number, a swimmer must deform in a way that is not invariant under time-reversal symmetry; this result is known as the scallop theorem. We sho…
Continuous breakdown of Purcell's scallop theorem with inertia
Eric Lauga
Purcell's scallop theorem defines the type of motions of a solid body - reciprocal motions - which cannot propel the body in a viscous fluid with zero Reynolds number. For example,…
Propulsion in a viscoelastic fluid
Eric Lauga
Flagella beating in complex fluids are significantly influenced by viscoelastic stresses. Relevant examples include the ciliary transport of respiratory airway mucus and the motion…