4 papers
Tunable asymmetric swimming in biflagellate microswimmers
Benjamin J. Walker, Clément Moreau, Tommie L. Robinson +4
Many biological microswimmers can modulate their swimming gait to achieve directional control of motility, especially when performing steering towards specific directional cues. Th…
On discretely structured growth models and their moments
Benjamin J. Walker, Helen M. Byrne
The logistic equation is ubiquitous in applied mathematics as a minimal model of saturating growth. Here, we examine a broad generalisation of the logistic growth model to discrete…
Motility and rotation of multi-timescale microswimmers in linear background flows
Eamonn A. Gaffney, Kenta Ishimoto, Benjamin J. Walker
Microswimming cells and robots exhibit diverse behaviours due to both their swimming and their environment. One of the core environmental features impacting inertialess swimming is…
Minimal design of a synthetic cilium
Clément Moreau, Benjamin J. Walker, Rebecca N. Poon +4
We study a slender filament beating in a viscous fluid with novel curvature-dependent bending stiffness. Our numerical and experimental investigations reveal that such differential…