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2016
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Microswimmers near surfaces
Microswimmers near surfaces
Both, in their natural environment and in a controlled experimental setup, microswimmers regularly interact with surfaces. These surfaces provide a steric boundary, both for the swimming motion and the hydrodynamic flow pattern. These effects typically imply a strong accumulation of microswimmers ne...
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Personal Name(s): | Elgeti, Jens (Corresponding author) |
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Gompper, Gerhard (Corresponding author) | |
Contributing Institute: |
Theorie der Weichen Materie und Biophysik; ICS-2 |
Published in: | European physical journal special topics, 225 (2016) 11-12, S. 2333 - 2352 |
Imprint: |
Berlin
Springer
2016
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DOI: |
10.1140/epjst/e2016-60070-6 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Physical Basis of Diseases |
Link: |
OpenAccess OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/12748 in citations.
Both, in their natural environment and in a controlled experimental setup, microswimmers regularly interact with surfaces. These surfaces provide a steric boundary, both for the swimming motion and the hydrodynamic flow pattern. These effects typically imply a strong accumulation of microswimmers near surfaces. While some generic features can be derived, details of the swimmer shape and propulsion mechanism matter, which give rise to a broad range of adhesion phenomena and have to be taken into account to predict the surface accumulation for a given swimmer. We show in this minireview how numerical simulations and analytic theory can be used to predict the accumulation statistics for different systems, with an emphasis on swimmer shape, hydrodynamics interactions, and type of noisy dynamics. |