Wang Qixuan, Othmer Hans G
Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States. email:
Math Biosci Eng. 2015 Dec;12(6):1303-20. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2015.12.1303.
Swimming by shape changes at low Reynolds number is widely used in biology and understanding how the performance of movement depends on the geometric pattern of shape changes is important to understand swimming of microorganisms and in designing low Reynolds number swimming models. The simplest models of shape changes are those that comprise a series of linked spheres that can change their separation and/or their size. Herein we compare the performance of three models in which these modes are used in different ways.
在低雷诺数下通过形状变化进行游动在生物学中被广泛应用，理解运动性能如何依赖于形状变化的几何模式对于理解微生物游动以及设计低雷诺数游动模型至关重要。最简单的形状变化模型是由一系列可改变间距和/或大小的相连球体组成的模型。在此，我们比较了三种以不同方式使用这些模式的模型的性能。
