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Dynamics of a treadmilling microswimmer near a no-slip wall in simple shear
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Author(s)
Ishimoto, K
Crowdy, DG
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Induction of flow is commonly used to control the migration of a microswimmer in a confined system such as a microchannel. The motion of a swimmer, in general, is governed by nonlinear equations due to non-trivial hydrodynamic interactions between the flow and the swimmer near a wall. This paper derives analytical expressions for the equations of motion governing a circular treadmilling swimmer in simple shear near a no-slip wall by combining the reciprocal theorem for Stokes flow with an exact solution for the dragging problem of a cylinder near a wall. We demonstrate that the reduced dynamical system possesses a Hamiltonian structure, which we use to show that the swimmer cannot migrate stably at a constant distance from a wall but only exhibit periodic oscillatory motion along the wall, or to escape from it. A treadmilling swimmer with the lowest two treadmilling modes is investigated in detail by means of a bifurcation analysis of the reduced dynamical system. It is found that the swimming direction of oscillatory motion is clarified by the sign of the Hamiltonian in the absence of flow, and that the induction of the flow suppresses upstream migration but aligns swimmer orientations in downstream migration. These results could inform strategies for the transport and control of micro-organisms and micromachines.
Date Issued
2017-05-25
Date Acceptance
2017-03-27
Citation
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017, 821, pp.647-667
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46115
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.220
ISSN
1469-7645
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Start Page
647
End Page
667
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Volume
821
Copyright Statement
© Cambridge University Press 2017 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
The Royal Society
Grant Number
EP/K019430/1
WM120037
Subjects
Fluids & Plasmas
01 Mathematical Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
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