We prove an existence, uniqueness, and regularity result for the motion of a self-propelled micro-swimmer in a particulate viscous medium, modelled as a Brinkman fluid. A suitable functional setting is introduced to solve the Brinkman system for the velocity field and the pressure of the fluid by variational techniques. The equations of motion are written by imposing a self-propulsion constraint, thus allowing the viscous forces and torques to be the only ones acting on the swimmer. From an infinite-dimensional control on the shape of the swimmer, a system of six ordinary differential equations for the spatial position and the orientation of the swimmer is obtained. This is dealt with standard techniques for ordinary differential equations, once the coefficients are proved to be measurable and bounded. The main result turns out to extend an analogous result previously obtained for the Stokes system.
Self-propelled micro-swimmers in a Brinkman fluid / Morandotti, Marco. - In: JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS. - ISSN 1751-3758. - STAMPA. - 6 Suppl 1:sup1(2012), pp. 88-103.
Titolo: | Self-propelled micro-swimmers in a Brinkman fluid |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2012 |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513758.2011.611260 |
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