Table 1.

Reference parameter values for the flagellum waveform, with details on the motivation for the parameter estimates presented in §1 of the electronic supplementary material.

parameter	interpretation	value
L	flagellar length	56 μm
1/T = ω/[2π]	beat frequency	14 Hz
α	chirality parameter	±{0, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1,0.2}
Γ/L	asymmetric waveform parameter	{0.5, ∞}
kL	wavenumber	3π
B	flagellar envelope parameter	0.2 L
a	flagellar radius	0.01 L