Collective behavior of strongly confined suspensions of squirmers

We run numerical simulations of strongly confined suspensions of model spherical swimmers called "squirmers". Because of the confinement, the Stokeslet dipoles generated by the particles are quickly screened and the far-field flow is dominated by the source dipole for all the different kin...

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Published in:Europhysics letters 2016-04, Vol.114 (2), p.24001-24001
Main Authors: Delfau, J.-B., Molina, J., Sano, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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05.10.-a
47.57.E
82.70.Dd
Computational fluid dynamics
Confinement
Dipoles
Far fields
Fluctuation
Fluid flow
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Vectors (mathematics)
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Summary:We run numerical simulations of strongly confined suspensions of model spherical swimmers called "squirmers". Because of the confinement, the Stokeslet dipoles generated by the particles are quickly screened and the far-field flow is dominated by the source dipole for all the different kinds of squirmers. However, we show that the collective behavior of the suspension still depends on the self-propelling mechanism of the swimmers as polar states can only be observed for neutral squirmers. We demonstrate that the near-field hydrodynamic interactions play a crucial role in the alignment of the orientation vectors of spherical particles. Moreover, we point out that the enstrophy and the fluid fluctuations of an active suspension also depend on the nature of the squirmers.
ISSN:0295-5075
1286-4854
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/114/24001