Micro-Swimmers

Biological and Engineered Micro-Swimmers

Selected publications
M. ARROYO, L. HELTAI, D. MILAN, A. DESIMONE: Reverse engineering the euglenoid movement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109:17874-17879, 2012 (pdf).
F. ALOUGES, A. DESIMONE, A. LEFEBVRE: Optimal strokes for low Reynolds number swimmers: an example. Journal of Nonlinear Science , Vol. 18, p.277 (2008). (pdf)
A. DESIMONE, F. ALOUGES, A. LEFEBVRE: Biological Fluid Dynamics. Springer Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science , 2009 (pdf).

Movie (courtesy of L. Heltai, Sissa)
Olympic racing between three-sphere swimmers