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Purcell magneto-elastic swimmer controlled by an external magnetic field
François Alouges, Antonio Desimone, Laetitia Giraldi +1
This paper focuses on the mechanism of propulsion of a Purcell swimmer whose segments are magnetized and react to an external magnetic field applied into the fluid. By an asymptoti…
math.DS2016
Swimming by switching
Fabio Bagagiolo, Rosario Maggistro, Marta Zoppello
In this paper we investigate different strategies to overcome the scallop theorem. We will show how to obtain a net motion exploiting the fluid's type change during a periodic defo…