Transition in motility mechanism due to inertia in a model self-propelled two-sphere swimmer
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Shannon K. Jones, Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla, Georgios Katsikis, Boyce E. Griffith, and Daphne Klotsa ∗ Department of Applied Physical Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Departments of Mathematics, Applied Physical Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (Dated: January 15, 2018)
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