Transport barriers for microswimmers in unsteady flow
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| author | Storm, L. Qiu, J. Gustavsson, K. Mehlig, B. |
| author_facet | Storm, L. Qiu, J. Gustavsson, K. Mehlig, B. |
| contents | Certain flow structures trap active microorganisms over extended periods, impacting mortality and growth by inhibiting foraging, exploration, and predator evasion. We show that transport barriers and trapping of a microswimmer in unsteady vortex flow can be understood in terms of Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS) in phase space, taking into account both flow and swimming dynamics. These phase-space LCS constrain when and how artificial microswimmers can be trained by reinforcement learning to escape traps. Our results suggest that phase-space LCS can explain training failure and success in a broad class of navigation problems. |
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| spellingShingle | Transport barriers for microswimmers in unsteady flow Storm, L. Qiu, J. Gustavsson, K. Mehlig, B. Fluid Dynamics Biological Physics Certain flow structures trap active microorganisms over extended periods, impacting mortality and growth by inhibiting foraging, exploration, and predator evasion. We show that transport barriers and trapping of a microswimmer in unsteady vortex flow can be understood in terms of Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS) in phase space, taking into account both flow and swimming dynamics. These phase-space LCS constrain when and how artificial microswimmers can be trained by reinforcement learning to escape traps. Our results suggest that phase-space LCS can explain training failure and success in a broad class of navigation problems. |
| title | Transport barriers for microswimmers in unsteady flow |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16430 |