Interfacial flow around a pusher bacterium

DOI10.1017/JFM.2023.905MaRDI QIDQ6086940zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jiayi Deng, Nicholas G. Chisholm, Kathleen J. Stebe

Publication date 11 December 2023

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02300

zbMATH Keywords

active mattercolloids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: Motile bacteria play essential roles in biology that rely on their dynamic behaviors, including their ability to navigate, interact, and self-organize. However, bacteria dynamics on fluid interfaces are not well understood. Swimmers adsorbed on fluid interfaces remain highly motile, and fluid interfaces are highly non-ideal domains that alter swimming behavior. To understand these effects, we study flow fields generated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 in the pusher mode. Analysis of correlated displacements of tracers and bacteria reveals dipolar flow fields with unexpected asymmetries that differ significantly from their counterparts in bulk fluids. We decompose the flow field into fundamental hydrodynamic modes for swimmers in incompressible fluid interfaces. We find an expected force-doublet mode corresponding to propulsion and drag at the interface plane, and a second dipolar mode, associated with forces exerted by the flagellum on the cell body in the aqueous phase that are countered by Marangoni stresses in the interface. The balance of these modes depends on the bacteria's trapped interfacial configurations. Understanding these flows is broadly important in nature and in the design of biomimetic swimmers.

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