Spontaneous unidirectional rotation of a symmetric gear driven by spherical active particles

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Figure 3

Example long-time averaged flow field of ABPs in the lab (A) and the gear (B) frames ( $F_{a} = 8$ , $D_{r} = 0.001$ and $ϕ = 0.15$ ). (C)–(E) Schematics of collision of an ABP with the “head-on side” and the “rear-end side” of the gear in the URS. (F) Long-time averaged distribution of normal force density along the boundary of the gear exerted by surrounding ABPs.

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