ArticleMeccanica2026
Purcell swimmer near a wall.
Article in Meccanica, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
We study the effects of hydrodynamic interactions between a wall and a Purcell three-link swimmer in the case of motion in a plane. We extend previous theoretical studies of the three-link swimmer based on resistive-force theory by taking into account drag coefficients that are modified by the presence of a no-slip wall, considering the case where the distance to the wall is much less than the length of the swimmer and much larger than the thickness of the links. After deriving the equations of motion, we show, by means of criteria from Geometric Control Theory, that the system is locally controllable at configurations that are nearly parallel to the wall. Our result is obtained for a three-link swimmer in which the outer links have equal length and the central one differs by a factor
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