Run-and-Tumble Particles with Hydrodynamics: Sedimentation, Trapping, and Upstream Swimming
Run-and-Tumble Particles with Hydrodynamics: Sedimentation, Trapping, and Upstream Swimming
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.104.258101
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发表时间:
2010-06-22
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Cates, M. E.
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作者:
Nash, R. W.;Adhikari, R.;Cates, M. E.
We simulate by lattice Boltzmann the nonequilibrium steady states of run-and-tumble particles (inspired by a minimal model of bacteria), interacting by far-field hydrodynamics, subject to confinement. Under gravity, hydrodynamic interactions barely perturb the steady state found without them, but for particles in a harmonic trap such a state is quite changed if the run length is larger than the confinement length: a self-assembled pump is formed. Particles likewise confined in a narrow channel show a generic upstream flux in Poiseuille flow: chiral swimming is not required.