Hydrodynamic study on propulsive mechanisms of undulatory swimming

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06314
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Mathematical physics/Fundamental condensed matter physics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Ishimoto Kenta 京都大学, 白眉センター, 特定助教 (00741141)
• Research Collaborator: GAFFNEY Eamonn University of Oxford, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Associate Professor ; TAKEHIRO Shin-Ichi 京都大学, 数理解析研究所, 准教授 (30274426)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 生物流体力学 / 低レイノルズ数流れ / 最適化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Undulatory swimming at low Reynolds number has been investigated. By using a genetic algorithm, optimal swimming on the swimming efficiency is computed, and it is found that he results are compatible with real biological swimmers. Further studies on hyperactivation of mammalian spermatozoa has demonstrated multiple mechanical functions in fertilization processes by our fluid dynamic numerical computation.

Free Research Field

流体力学