title: Oscillatory motions of an active deformable particle.
abstract: We investigate dynamics of an active particle in which shape deformations occur spontaneously. In two dimensions, the deformations are expanded in terms of the Fourier series and the couplings of different modes are taken into consideration truncated up to lower orders. We focus our attention on the special symmetrical structure between the coupled equations of n- and 2n-mode deformations for n=1, and those for n=2. We show that an oscillatory bifurcation occurs for n=2, which corresponds mathematically to the bifurcation for n=1 where a straight motion becomes unstable and a circular motion appears. At the oscillatory state, the particle undergoes either a spinning motion or a standing oscillation of shape deformations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. tarama@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Mitsusuke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tarama
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohta