Among several models for microswimmers, the three-sphere microswimmer proposed by
Najafi and Golestanian captures the essential mechanism for the locomotion of a …

As compared to the well explored problem of how to steer a macroscopic agent, like an
airplane or a moon lander, to optimally reach a target, optimal navigation strategies for …

Swimming at the microscale has recently garnered substantial attention due to the
fundamental biological significance of swimming microorganisms and the wide range of …

We consider chirality in active systems by exemplarily studying the phase behavior of planar
systems of interacting Brownian circle swimmers with a spherical shape. For this purpose …

The near-surface locomotion of microswimmers under the action of background flows has
been studied extensively, whereas the intervening effects of complex surface properties …

We consider a swimmer consisting of a collinear assembly of three spheres connected by
two slender rods. This swimmer can propel itself forward by varying the lengths of the rods in …

Geometric confinements are frequently encountered in soft matter systems and in particular
significantly alter the dynamics of swimming microorganisms in viscous media. Surface …

We consider the active Brownian particle model for a two-dimensional microswimmer with
fixed speed, whose direction of swimming changes according to a Brownian process. The …

Several recent experiments investigate the orientational and transport behavior of self-
driven bacteria and colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystals. Correspondingly, we study …

The interaction of motile micro-organisms with a nearby solid substrate is a well-studied
phenomenon. However, the effects of hydrodynamic slippage on the substrate have …