%0 Book Section %B Natural locomotion in fluids and on surfaces : swimming, flying, and sliding / editors Stephen Childress, Anette Hosoi, William W. Schultz, and Z. Jane Wang, editors, %D 2012 %T Computing optimal strokes for low reynolds number swimmers %A Antonio DeSimone %A Luca Heltai %A François Alouges %A Lefebvre-Lepot Aline %K Numerical analysis. %X

We discuss connections between low-Reynolds-number swimming and geometric control theory, and present a general algorithm for the numerical computation of energetically optimal strokes. As an illustration of our approach, we show computed motility maps and optimal strokes for two model swimmers.

%B Natural locomotion in fluids and on surfaces : swimming, flying, and sliding / editors Stephen Childress, Anette Hosoi, William W. Schultz, and Z. Jane Wang, editors, %I Springer %@ 9781461439967 %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6445 %1 6381 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/08 ANALISI NUMERICA %$ Submitted by Luca Heltai (heltai@sissa.it) on 2013-02-01T17:33:50Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 0 %R 10.1007/978-1-4614-3997-4_13