Mapping flagellated swimmers to surface-slip driven swimmers

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Autores principales: Gidituri, H., Kabacaoğlu, G., Ellero, M., Usabiaga, F. Balboa
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Publicado: 2023
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author Gidituri, H.
Kabacaoğlu, G.
Ellero, M.
Usabiaga, F. Balboa
author_facet Gidituri, H.
Kabacaoğlu, G.
Ellero, M.
Usabiaga, F. Balboa
contents Flagellated microswimmers are ubiquitous in natural habitats. Understanding the hydrodynamic behavior of these cells is of paramount interest, owing to their applications in bio-medical engineering and disease spreading. Since the last two decades, computational efforts have been continuously improved to accurately capture the complex hydrodynamic behavior of these model systems. However, modeling the dynamics of such swimmers with fine details is computationally expensive due to the large number of unknowns and the small time-steps required to solve the equations. In this work we propose a method to map fully resolved flagellated microswimmers to coarse, active slip driven swimmers which can be simulated at a reduced computational cost. Using the new method, the slip driven swimmers move with the same velocity, to machine precision, as the flagellated swimmers and generate a similar flow field with a controlled accuracy. The method is validated for swimming patterns near a no-slip boundary, interactions between swimmers and scattering with large obstacles.
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spellingShingle Mapping flagellated swimmers to surface-slip driven swimmers
Gidituri, H.
Kabacaoğlu, G.
Ellero, M.
Usabiaga, F. Balboa
Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
Flagellated microswimmers are ubiquitous in natural habitats. Understanding the hydrodynamic behavior of these cells is of paramount interest, owing to their applications in bio-medical engineering and disease spreading. Since the last two decades, computational efforts have been continuously improved to accurately capture the complex hydrodynamic behavior of these model systems. However, modeling the dynamics of such swimmers with fine details is computationally expensive due to the large number of unknowns and the small time-steps required to solve the equations. In this work we propose a method to map fully resolved flagellated microswimmers to coarse, active slip driven swimmers which can be simulated at a reduced computational cost. Using the new method, the slip driven swimmers move with the same velocity, to machine precision, as the flagellated swimmers and generate a similar flow field with a controlled accuracy. The method is validated for swimming patterns near a no-slip boundary, interactions between swimmers and scattering with large obstacles.
title Mapping flagellated swimmers to surface-slip driven swimmers
topic Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05121