Locomotion is a fundamental characteristic of life and has been pervasive throughout the history of science and philosophy. Recent technological advances have made it extremely exciting time to explore the motion in the microscopic world, which leaves many interesting questions for biology, physics, mathematics and engineering, my research lies squarely at the intersection of theses disciplines. In this talk, I will focus on the eukaryotic flagella and present my recently work about the synchronization in biological filaments. Experiments revealed that a pair of isolated eukaryotic flagella, coupled solely via the fluid medium, display synchronization with different phase lags. Using an elasto-hydrodynamic filament model in conjunction with numerical simulations and a Floquet-type theoretical analysis, I show that it is possible to reach synchronization states with multiple phase lags by varying the intrinsic activity of the filament and the strength of hydrodynamic coupling between the two filaments. In particular I find that non-trivial phase lag corresponds to asymmetric synchronization even though the activity of the two filaments is identical. These novel results could have significant implications in the locomotion of bi-flagellated cells.   

所内联系人：孟凡龙

满怡，助理教授，2021年入职北京大学工学院力学系。 

2017年博士毕业于剑桥大学应用数学与理论物理系，之后在南加州大学机械工程系做博士后。

研究兴趣包括低雷诺数流体力学，微生物运动学，生物物理。