%0 Journal Article %D 2014 %T Discrete one-dimensional crawlers on viscous substrates: achievable net displacements and their energy cost %A Giovanni Noselli %A Amabile Tatone %A Antonio DeSimone %K Cell migration %X We study model one-dimensional crawlers, namely, model mechanical systems that can achieve self-propulsion by controlled shape changes of their body (extension or contraction of portions of the body), thanks to frictional interactions with a rigid substrate. We evaluate the achievable net displacement and the related energetic cost for self-propulsion by discrete crawlers (i.e., whose body is made of a discrete number of contractile or extensile segments) moving on substrates with either a Newtonian (linear) or a Bingham-type (stick-slip) rheology. Our analysis is aimed at constructing the basic building blocks towards an integrative, multi-scale description of crawling cell motility. %I Elsevier %G en %U http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34449 %1 34591 %2 Mathematics %$ Submitted by gnoselli@sissa.it (gnoselli@sissa.it) on 2015-03-07T17:44:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 N-link_crawlers.pdf: 1005838 bytes, checksum: 685d5b41e7de190ec65c60090d397f93 (MD5) %R 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.10.023