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Drescher, Knut, Goldstein, Raymond E., Michel, Nicolas, Polin, Marco and Tuval, Idan (2010) Direct measurement of the flow field around swimming microorganisms. Physical Review Letters, Volume 105 (Number 16). Article number 168101 . doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.168101
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.168101
Abstract
Swimming microorganisms create flows that influence their mutual interactions and modify the rheology of their suspensions. While extensively studied theoretically, these flows have not been measured in detail around any freely-swimming microorganism. We report such measurements for the microphytes Volvox carteri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The minute (∼0.3%) density excess of V. carteri over water leads to a strongly dominant Stokeslet contribution, with the widely-assumed stresslet flow only a correction to the subleading source dipole term. This implies that suspensions of V. carteri have features similar to suspensions of sedimenting particles. The flow in the region around C. reinhardtii where significant hydrodynamic interaction is likely to occur differs qualitatively from a puller stresslet, and can be described by a simple three-Stokeslet model.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review Letters | ||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 11 October 2010 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 105 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 16 | ||||||
| Article Number: | Article number 168101 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.168101 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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