Self-organized Beating and Swimming of Internally Driven Filaments

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1998-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9810279v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1590

We study a simple two-dimensional model for motion of an elastic filament subject to internally generated stresses and show that wave-like propagating shapes which can propel the filament can be induced by a self-organized mechanism via a dynamic instability. The resulting patterns of motion do not depend on the microscopic mechanism of the instability but only of the filament rigidity and hydrodynamic friction. Our results suggest that simplified systems, consisting only of molecular motors and filaments could be able to show beating motion and self-propulsion.

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