Abstract:
Advancement in the field of
Nanorobotics has been facilitated by the current
advances in Nano-bio-technology and
nanofabrication techniques. Nanorobots can be
used in the advancement of medical technology,
healthcare and environment monitoring and
swim in biological fluids flowing in narrow
channels of a few hundred nanometers in the
area of bio-medical engineering. The pronounced
effects in nanometer scale such as increased
apparent viscosity and low Reynolds number
make the designing of propulsion mechanism a
challenging task. Prominent modes of flagellar
locomotion in micro-sized biological organisms
are by generating planar waves or through helical
rotation. The present work attempts to
numerically simulate the shape form of the tail of
a swimming nanorobot by solving the governing
equation of its flagellar hydro-dynamics. It
corroborates with the analytical studies aimed at
the modeling of Nanorobot dynamics thorough
planar wave propagation.