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- Title
Hydrodynamic synchronization of flagellar oscillators.
- Authors
Friedrich, Benjamin
- Abstract
In this review, we highlight the physics of synchronization in collections of beating cilia and flagella. We survey the nonlinear dynamics of synchronization in collections of noisy oscillators. This framework is applied to flagellar synchronization by hydrodynamic interactions. The time-reversibility of hydrodynamics at low Reynolds numbers requires swimming strokes that break time-reversal symmetry to facilitate hydrodynamic synchronization. We discuss different physical mechanisms for flagellar synchronization, which break this symmetry in different ways.
- Subjects
HYDRODYNAMICS; FLAGELLA (Microbiology); CILIA &; ciliary motion; SYNCHRONIZATION; REYNOLDS number
- Publication
European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 2016, Vol 225, Issue 11/12, p2353
- ISSN
1951-6355
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epjst/e2016-60056-4