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PLASMA, HYDRO- AND GAS DYNAMICS
Optimal dynamics of a spherical squirmer in Eulerian description
V. P. Ruban Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia
Abstract:
The problem of optimization of a cycle of tangential deformations of the surface of a spherical object (micro-squirmer) self-propelling in a viscous fluid at low Reynolds numbers is represented in a noncanonical Hamiltonian form. The evolution system of equations for the coefficients of expansion of the surface velocity in the associated Legendre polynomials $P^1_n(\cos\theta)$ is obtained. The system is quadratically nonlinear, but it is integrable in the three-mode approximation. This allows a theoretical interpretation of numerical results previously obtained for this problem.
Received: 08.02.2019 Revised: 08.02.2019 Accepted: 21.02.2019
Citation:
V. P. Ruban, “Optimal dynamics of a spherical squirmer in Eulerian description”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 109:8 (2019), 521–524; JETP Letters, 109:8 (2019), 512–515
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