Going in circles: Slender body analysis of a self-propelling bent rod
Arkava Ganguly, Ankur Gupta
Abstract
We investigate the self-propelling motion of a bent rod. Our analysis reveals that the planar motion of the rod is always circular, and the radius of the circle and the speed of the particle can be tuned by changing the relative length of the two arms and the angle between them.
Topics & Concepts
Bent molecular geometryPlanarRADIUSMotion (physics)PhysicsGeometryClassical mechanicsMathematicsStructural engineeringComputer scienceEngineeringComputer graphics (images)Computer securityMicro and Nano RoboticsModular Robots and Swarm IntelligenceMicrofluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies