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Role of cilia activity and surrounding viscous fluid in properties of metachronal waves

Supravat Dey
Gladys Massiera
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Estelle Pitard

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Large groups of active cilia collectively beat in a fluid medium as metachronal waves, essential for some microorganisms motility and for flow generation in mucociliary clearance. Several models can predict the emergence of metachronal waves, but what controls the properties of metachronal waves is still unclear. Here, we numerically investigate the respective impacts of active beating and viscous dissipation on the properties of metachronal waves in a collection of oscillators, using a simple model for cilia in the presence of noise on regular lattices in one and two dimensions. We characterize the wave using spatial correlation and the frequency of collective beating. Our results clearly show that the viscosity of the fluid medium does not affect the wavelength; the activity of the cilia does. These numerical results are supported by a dimensional analysis, which shows that the result of wavelength invariance is robust against the model taken for sustained beating and the structure of hydrodynamic coupling. Interestingly, the enhancement of cilia activity increases the wavelength and decreases the beating frequency, keeping the wave velocity almost unchanged. These results might have significance in understanding paramecium locomotion and mucociliary clearance diseases.
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hal-04767246 , version 1 (06-11-2024)

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Supravat Dey, Gladys Massiera, Estelle Pitard. Role of cilia activity and surrounding viscous fluid in properties of metachronal waves. Physical Review E , 2024, 110 (1), pp.014409. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.110.014409⟩. ⟨hal-04767246⟩
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