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The paper carries on our previous investigations on the complementary version of Purcell’s rotator (sPr3): a low-Reynolds-number swimmer composed of three balls of equal radii. In the asymptotic regime of very long arms, the Stokes-induced governing dynamics is derived, and then experimented in the context of energy-minimizing self-propulsion characterized in the first part of the paper.
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Alouges, F., Di Fratta, G. Parking 3-sphere swimmer: II. The long-arm asymptotic regime. Eur. Phys. J. E 43, 6 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2020-11932-5
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