Fig. 5: Decoupling of flagellar shaping and swimming.
From: The reaction-diffusion basis of animated patterns in eukaryotic flagella
a Simulations of the chemoEH model in (Sp, μa) parameter space. Moment balance at s = L/2 (below) showing increase in contribution of Nb with increasing Sp (blue/orange/green triangles). b (i) Contribution of viscous moments Nb relative to elastic restoring moments μγ quantified by the ratio of standard deviations \(\hat{H}\). Decoupling region (DR) demarcated by \(\hat{H}=5\%\). (ii) Progressive velocity vh peaked in the decoupling region. (iii) Wavenumber q, divided into left (red) and right (blue) regions of q ≈ 2π and q ≈ 4π respectively.
