Hydrodynamics of chiral squirmers

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Hydrodynamics of chiral squirmers
المؤلفون: Burada, P. S., Maity, R., Jülicher, F.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, Physics - Fluid Dynamics
الوصف: Many microorganisms take a chiral path while swimming in an ambient uid. In this paper, we study the combined behavior of two chiral swimmers using the well-known squirmer model taking into account chiral asymmetries. In contrast to the simple squirmer model, which has an axisymmetric distribution of slip velocity, the chiral squirmer has additional asymmetries in the surface slip, which contribute to both translations and rotations of the motion. As a result, swimming trajectories can become helical and chiral asymmetries arise in the ow patterns. We study the swimming trajectories of a pair of chiral squirmers that interact hydrodynamically. This interaction can lead to attraction and repulsion, and in some cases even to bounded states where the swimmers continue to periodically orbit around a common average trajectory. Such bound states are a signature of the chiral nature of the swimmers. Our study could be relevant to the collective movements of ciliated microorganisms.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.024603
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02214
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2106.02214
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.024603