Date/heure
6 février 2026
11:00 - 12:00
Oratrice ou orateur
Jessie Levillain (CNES INSA Toulouse)
Catégorie d'évènement Séminaire EDP, Analyse et Applications (Metz)
Résumé
Simulating and modeling flexible fibers is an crucial issue in many microbiological problems. We focus on a recent result on convergence and well-posedness of the equations governing the dynamics of a discretized version of a continuous, flexible, inextensible filament immersed in a fluid at a low-Reynolds number.
The elastohydrodynamic equation governing the motion of such a filament is a nonlinear 4th-order PDE system. Complexity in analytical and numerical study of the system has led to the use of simplified models, e.g. the ”N-link” [F. Alouges, A. DeSimone, L. Giraldi, M. Zoppello, Self-propulsion of slender microswimmers by curvature control : N-link swimmers, Int. J. Non-Linear Mech.,2013.], a mechanical discretization into N rigid segments with elastic joints.
While numerical evidence shows convergence of this model to the continuous case [C. Moreau, L. Giraldi, H. Gadˆelha, The asymptotic coarse-graining formulation of slender-rods, bio-filaments and flagella, J. R. Soc. Interface, 2018], rigorous convergence is nontrivial: the equations of the N-link are not a classical approximation of the underlying PDE.
We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for the N-link system and demonstrate their convergence to solutions of the classical PDE, leading also to an alternative proof of existence for the continuous PDE, complementing [Y. Mori, L. Ohm, Well-posedness and applications of classical elastohydrodynamics for a swimming filament, Nonlinearity, 2023].
This work was done in collaboration with F. Alouges, A. Lefebvre-Lepot and C. Moreau.