Minimal design of a synthetic cilium

We study a slender filament beating in a viscous fluid with novel curvature-dependent bending stiffness. Our numerical and experimental investigations reveal that such differential stiffness can sustain planar bending waves far along flexible filaments, in stark contrast to the uniform-stiffness cas...

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Main Authors: Clément Moreau, Benjamin J. Walker, Rebecca N. Poon, Daniel Soto, Daniel I. Goldman, Eamonn A. Gaffney, Kirsty Y. Wan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2024-12-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L042061
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