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Article Dans Une Revue ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations Année : 2020

Controllability of low Reynolds numbers swimmers of ciliate type

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We study the locomotion of a ciliated microorganism in a viscous incompressible fluid. We use the Blake ciliated model: the swimmer is a rigid body with tangential displacements at its boundary that allow it to propel in a Stokes fluid. This can be seen as a control problem: using periodical displacements, is it possible to reach a given position and a given orientation? We are interested in the minimal dimension d of the space of controls that allows the microorganism to swim. Our main result states the exact controllability with d = 3 generically with respect to the shape of the swimmer and with respect to the vector fields generating the tangential displacements. The proof is based on analyticity results and on the study of the particular case of spheroidal swimmer.
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hal-01569856 , version 1 (27-07-2017)

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Jérôme Lohéac, Takéo Takahashi. Controllability of low Reynolds numbers swimmers of ciliate type. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, 2020, 26, pp.31. ⟨10.1051/cocv/2019010⟩. ⟨hal-01569856⟩
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