On the distribution and swim pressure of run-and-tumble particles in confinement

DOI10.1017/JFM.2015.520zbMATH Open1338.76145arXiv1507.06379OpenAlexW2205093578MaRDI QIDQ2810486FDOQ2810486

Authors: Barath Ezhilan, Roberto Alonso-Matilla, David Saintillan 

Publication date: 1 June 2016

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

Abstract: The spatial and orientational distribution in a dilute active suspension of non-Brownian run-and-tumble spherical swimmers confined between two planar hard walls is calculated theoretically. Using a kinetic model based on coupled bulk/surface probability density functions, we demonstrate the existence of a concentration wall boundary layer with thickness scaling with the run length, the absence of polarization throughout the channel, and the presence of sharp discontinuities in the bulk orientation distribution in the neighborhood of orientations parallel to the wall in the near-wall region. Our model is also applied to calculate the swim pressure in the system, which approaches the previously proposed ideal-gas behavior in wide channels but is found to decrease in narrow channels as a result of confinement. Monte-Carlo simulations are also performed for validation and show excellent quantitative agreement with our theoretical predictions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06379

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zbMATH Keywords

suspensionsbiological fluid dynamicsmicro-organism dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physiological flows (76Z05) Physiological flow (92C35)

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• Transport of a dilute active suspension in pressure-driven channel flow

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