A boundary element regularized Stokeslet method applied to cilia- and flagella-driven flow

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2009.0295MaRDI QIDQ4931052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David J. Smith

Publication date 2 October 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0570

zbMATH Keywords

boundary elementciliaflagellaregularized Stokesletslender body theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17)

Abstract: A boundary element implementation of the regularised Stokeslet method of Cortez is applied to cilia and flagella-driven flows in biology. Previously-published approaches implicitly combine the force discretisation and the numerical quadrature used to evaluate boundary integrals. By contrast, a boundary element method can be implemented by discretising the force using basis functions, and calculating integrals using accurate numerical or analytic integration. This substantially weakens the coupling of the mesh size for the force and the regularisation parameter, and greatly reduces the number of degrees of freedom required. When modelling a cilium or flagellum as a one-dimensional filament, the regularisation parameter can be considered a proxy for the body radius, as opposed to being a parameter used to minimise numerical errors. Modelling a patch of cilia, it is found that: (1) For a fixed number of cilia, reducing cilia spacing reduces transport. (2) For fixed patch dimension, increasing cilia number increases the transport, up to a plateau at $9imes9$ cilia. Modelling a choanoflagellate cell it is found that the presence of a lorica structure significantly affects transport and flow outside the lorica, but does not significantly alter the force experienced by the flagellum.

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