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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 94, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.063114
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The swimming of a two-sphere system and of a three-sphere chain in an incompressible viscous fluid is studied on the basis of simplified equations of motion which take account of both Stokes friction and added mass effects. The analysis is based on an explicit expression for the asymptotic periodic swimming velocity and a corresponding evaluation of the mean rate of dissipation. The mean swimming velocity of the two-sphere system is found to be nonvanishing provided that the two spheres are not identical. The swimming of a comparable chain of three identical spheres is much more efficient.
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