Centripetal focusing of gyrotactic phytoplankton

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2016.03.037MaRDI QIDQ327205zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. Franchino, F. Santamaria, Guido Boffetta, Massimo Cencini

Publication date 19 October 2016

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01255

zbMATH Keywords

fluid-flow motility interactiongyrotaxismicroorganism motility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanics (92C10) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

Abstract: A suspension of gyrotactic microalgae Chlamydomonas augustae swimming in a cylindrical water vessel in solid-body rotation is studied. Our experiments show that swimming algae form an aggregate around the axis of rotation, whose intensity increases with the rotation speed. We explain this phenomenon by the centripetal orientation of the swimming direction towards the axis of rotation. This centripetal focusing is contrasted by diffusive fluxes due to stochastic reorientation of the cells. The competition of the two effects lead to a stationary distribution, which we analytically derive from a refined mathematical model of gyrotactic swimmers. The temporal evolution of the cell distribution, obtained via numerical simulations of the stochastic model, is in quantitative agreement with the experimental measurements in the range of parameters explored.

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