Omnidirectional propulsion in a metachronal swimmer
Fig 11
Computationally simulated MV for 255 ctene row control strategies, with 1≤ncr≤8 rows beating at 30 Hz, swimming either forward or backward for a simulated time of one second.
(A) Side view displaying the backward (-x) and forward (+x) swimming trajectories. (B) Front view of the swimming trajectories, showing the wide range of turning directions. Across all simulated trajectories, the minimum achieved is 0.22 (backward swimming) and 0.20 (forward swimming); the maximum achieved
is 1.79BL/s (equal for forward and backward swimming).