Abstract for "Sperm Motility and Multiciliary Beating:
an Integrative Mechanical Model"
The motility of sperm flagella and cilia are based on a common
axonemal structure. In this article, we describe a fluid-mechanical model
for the ciliary and sperm axoneme. This fluid-mechanical model,
based on the immersed boundary method,
couples the internal force generation of dynein molecular
motors through the passive elastic axonemal structure with the external
fluid mechanics governed by the Navier-Stokes equations.
We show recent numerical simulation results for sperm motility and
multiciliary interaction.