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The curved kinetic boundary layer of active matter

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-12-11 v1

Abstract

The finite reorient-time of swimmers leads to a finite run length \ell and the kinetic accumulation boundary layer on the microscopic length scale δ\delta on a non-penetrating wall. That boundary layer is the microscopic origin of the swim pressure, and is impacted by the geometry of the boundary [Yan \& Brady, \textit{J. Fluid. Mech.}, 2015, \textbf{785}, R1]. In this work we extend the analysis to analytically solve the boundary layer on an arbitrary-shaped body distorted by the local mean curvature. The solution gives the swim pressure distribution and the total force (torque) on an arbitrarily shaped body immersed in swimmers, with a general scaling of the curvature effect Πswimλδ2/L\Pi^{swim}\sim\lambda\delta^2/L.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01450,
  title  = {The curved kinetic boundary layer of active matter},
  author = {Wen Yan and John F. Brady},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01450},
  year   = {2017}
}