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Hydrodynamics of micro-swimmers in films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2016

A. J. T. M. Mathijssen ,
A. Doostmohammadi ,
J. M. Yeomans  and
T. N. Shendruk
A. J. T. M. Mathijssen*
Affiliation:
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, OxfordOX1 3NP, UK
A. Doostmohammadi
Affiliation:
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, OxfordOX1 3NP, UK
J. M. Yeomans
Affiliation:
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, OxfordOX1 3NP, UK
T. N. Shendruk
Affiliation:
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, OxfordOX1 3NP, UK
*
†Email address for correspondence: mathijssen@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

One of the principal mechanisms by which surfaces and interfaces affect microbial life is by perturbing the hydrodynamic flows generated by swimming. By summing a recursive series of image systems, we derive a numerically tractable approximation to the three-dimensional flow fields of a stokeslet (point force) within a viscous film between a parallel no-slip surface and a no-shear interface and, from this Green’s function, we compute the flows produced by a force- and torque-free micro-swimmer. We also extend the exact solution of Liron & Mochon (J. Engng Maths, vol. 10 (4), 1976, pp. 287–303) to the film geometry, which demonstrates that the image series gives a satisfactory approximation to the swimmer flow fields if the film is sufficiently thick compared to the swimmer size, and we derive the swimmer flows in the thin-film limit. Concentrating on the thick-film case, we find that the dipole moment induces a bias towards swimmer accumulation at the no-slip wall rather than the water–air interface, but that higher-order multipole moments can oppose this. Based on the analytic predictions, we propose an experimental method to find the multipole coefficient that induces circular swimming trajectories, allowing one to analytically determine the swimmer’s three-dimensional position under a microscope.

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Biological Fluid Dynamics: Biological Fluid Dynamics Low-Reynolds-number flows: Low-Reynolds-number flows Biological Fluid Dynamics: Micro-organism dynamics
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 806 , 10 November 2016 , pp. 35 - 70
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