4 papers
Locally tuned hydrodynamics of active polymer chains
Lisa Sappl, Christos N. Likos, Andreas Zöttl
We employ mesoscopic simulations to study active polymers in a solvent via multi-particle collision dynamics. We investigate linear chains in which either the head or tail monomer…
Reinforcement learning of a biflagellate model microswimmer
Sridhar Bulusu, Andreas Zöttl
Many microswimmers are able to swim through viscous fluids by employing periodic non-reciprocal deformations of their appendages. Here we use a simple microswimmer model inspired b…
Neuroevolution of Decentralized Decision-Making in N-Bead Swimmers Leads to Scalable and Robust Collective Locomotion
Benedikt Hartl, Michael Levin, Andreas Zöttl
Many microorganisms swim by performing larger non-reciprocal shape deformations that are initiated locally by molecular motors. However, it remains unclear how decentralized shape…
Supercoiled ring polymers under shear flow
Christoph Schneck, Jan Smrek, Christos N. Likos +1
We apply monomer-resolved computer simulations of supercoiled ring polymers under shear, taking full account of the hydrodynamic interactions, accompanied, in parallel, by simulati…