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Regularised non-uniform segments and efficient no-slip elastohydrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2021

B.J. Walker Open the ORCID record for B.J. Walker [Opens in a new window]  and
E.A. Gaffney
B.J. Walker*
Affiliation:
Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
E.A. Gaffney
Affiliation:
Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
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†Email address for correspondence: benjamin.walker@maths.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

The elastohydrodynamics of slender bodies in a viscous fluid have long been the source of theoretical investigation, being pertinent to the microscale world of ciliates and flagellates as well as to biological and engineered active matter more generally. Although recent works have overcome the severe numerical stiffness typically associated with slender elastohydrodynamics, employing both local and non-local couplings to the surrounding fluid, there is no framework of comparable efficiency that rigorously justifies its hydrodynamic accuracy. In this study, we combine developments in filament elastohydrodynamics with a recent regularised slender-body theory, affording algebraic asymptotic accuracy to the commonly imposed no-slip condition on the surface of a slender filament of potentially non-uniform cross-sectional radius. Further, we do this whilst retaining the remarkable practical efficiency of contemporary elastohydrodynamic approaches, having drawn inspiration from the method of regularised Stokeslet segments to yield an efficient and flexible slender-body theory of regularised non-uniform segments.

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Mathematical Foundations: Computational methods Low-Reynolds-number flows: Slender-body theory

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 915 , 25 May 2021 , A51
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