Fluid mixing by curved trajectories of microswimmers
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-16 v1 Chaotic Dynamics
Biological Physics
Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
We consider the tracer diffusion that arises from the run-and-tumble motion of low Reynolds number swimmers, such as bacteria. Assuming a dilute suspension, where the bacteria move in uncorrelated runs of length , we obtain an exact expression for for dipolar swimmers in three dimensions, hence explaining the surprising result that this is independent of . We compare to the contribution to tracer diffusion from entrainment.
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@article{arxiv.1307.6025,
title = {Fluid mixing by curved trajectories of microswimmers},
author = {Dmitri O. Pushkin and Julia M. Yeomans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6025},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures