TY - JOUR AU - Hubert, Maxime AU - Trosman, O. AU - Collard, Y. AU - Sukhov, A. AU - Harting, J. AU - Vandewalle, N. AU - Smith, A.-S. TI - Scallop Theorem and Swimming at the Mesoscale JO - Physical review letters VL - 126 IS - 22 SN - 1079-7114 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - FZJ-2021-02606 SP - 224501 PY - 2021 AB - By comparing theoretical modeling, simulations, and experiments, we show that there exists aswimming regime at low Reynolds numbers solely driven by the inertia of the swimmer itself. This isdemonstrated by considering a dumbbell with an asymmetry in coasting time in its two spheres. Despitedeforming in a reciprocal fashion, the dumbbell swims by generating a nonreciprocal Stokesian flow, whicharises from the asymmetry in coasting times. This asymmetry acts as a second degree of freedom, whichallows the scallop theorem to be fulfilled at the mesoscopic scale. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - 34152187 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000657182100002 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.224501 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/893171 ER -