The role of body flexibility in stroke enhancements for finite-length undulatory swimmers in viscoelastic fluids
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DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.383zbMATH Open1374.76245arXiv1610.02388OpenAlexW2530552029MaRDI QIDQ4594124FDOQ4594124
Authors: Becca Thomases, Robert D. Guy 
Publication date: 17 November 2017
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The role of passive body dynamics on the kinematics of swimming micro-organisms in complex fluids is investigated. Asymptotic analysis of small amplitude motions of a finite-length undulatory swimmer in a Stokes-Oldroyd-B fluid is used to predict shape changes that result as body elasticity and fluid elasticity are varied. Results from the analysis are compared with numerical simulations, and the small amplitude analysis of shape changes is quantitatively accurate at both small and large amplitudes, even for strongly elastic flows. We compute a stroke-induced swimming speed that accounts for the shape changes, but not additional effects of fluid elasticity. Elastic induced shape changes lead to larger amplitude strokes for sufficiently soft swimmers in a viscoelastic fluid, and these stroke boosts can lead to swimming speed-ups, but we find that additional effects of fluid elasticity generically slow down swimmers. High amplitude strokes in strongly elastic flows lead to a qualitatively different regime in which highly concentrated elastic stresses accumulate near swimmer bodies and where dramatic slow-downs are seen.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02388
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