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Controllability of 3D Low Reynolds Swimmers

Jérôme Lohéac () 12, Alexandre Munnier () 12

(27/02/2012)

Résumé : In this article, we consider a swimmer (i.e. a self-deformable body) immersed in a fluid, the flow of which is governed by the stationary Stokes equations. This model is relevant for studying the locomotion of microorganisms or micro robots for which the inertia effects can be neglected. Our first main contribution is to prove that any such microswimmer has the ability to track, by performing a sequence of shape changes, any given trajectory in the fluid. We show that, in addition, this can be done by means of arbitrarily small body deformations that can be superimposed to any preassigned sequence of macro shape changes. Our second contribution is to prove that, when no macro deformations are prescribed, tracking is generically possible by means of shape changes obtained as a suitable combination of only four elementary deformations. Eventually, still considering finite dimensional deformations, we state results about the existence of optimal swimming strategies for a wide class of cost functionals.

  • 1 :  CORIDA (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est / IECN / LMAM)
  • INRIA – CNRS : UMR7502 – Université de Lorraine
  • 2 :  Institut Elie Cartan Nancy (IECN)
  • CNRS : UMR7502 – INRIA – Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I – Université Nancy II – Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)
  • Collaboration : CORIDA
  • Domaine : Mathématiques/Equations aux dérivées partielles
    Mathématiques/Optimisation et contrôle
    Physique/Mécanique/Biomécanique
    Sciences de l'ingénieur/Mécanique/Biomécanique
  • Mots-clés : Locomotion – Biomechanics – Stokes fluid – Geometric control theory
  • Commentaire : 22 p.
 
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