Pushmepullyou: An efficient micro-swimmer

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The swimming of a pair of spherical bladders that change their volumes and mutual distance is superior to other models of artificial swimmers at low Reynolds numbers. The swimming resembles the wriggling motion known as metaboly of certain protozoa. © IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Avron, J. E., Kenneth, O., & Oaknin, D. H. (2005). Pushmepullyou: An efficient micro-swimmer. New Journal of Physics, 7. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/234

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