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Hydrodynamic oscillations and variable swimming speed in squirmers close to repulsive walls

Juho S. Lintuvuori
Aidan T Brown
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Kevin Stratford
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Davide Marenduzzo
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We present a lattice Boltzmann study of the hydrodynamics of a fully resolved squirmer, confined in a slab of fluid between two no-slip walls. We show that the coupling between hydrodynamics and short-range repulsive interactions between the swimmer and the surface can lead to hydrodynamic trapping of both pushers and pullers at the wall, and to hydrodynamic oscillations in the case of a pusher. We further show that a pusher moves significantly faster when close to a surface than in the bulk, whereas a puller undergoes a transition between fast motion and a dynamical standstill according to the range of the repulsive interaction. Our results critically require near-field hydrodynamics and demonstrate that far-field hydrodynamics is insufficient to give even a qualitatively correct account of swimmer behaviour near walls. Finally our simulations suggest that it should be possible to control the density and speed of squirmers at a surface by tuning the range of steric and electrostatic swimmer-wall interactions.

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hal-01540512 , version 1 (16-06-2017)

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Juho S. Lintuvuori, Aidan T Brown, Kevin Stratford, Davide Marenduzzo. Hydrodynamic oscillations and variable swimming speed in squirmers close to repulsive walls. Soft Matter, 2016, 12 (38), pp.7959-7968. ⟨10.1039/c6sm01353h⟩. ⟨hal-01540512⟩
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