Pursuit and synchronization in hydrodynamic dipoles

DOI10.1007/S00332-015-9262-9zbMATH Open1327.76181arXiv1505.00490OpenAlexW3104258659MaRDI QIDQ745971FDOQ745971

Alan Cheng Hou Tsang, E. Kanso

Publication date: 15 October 2015

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study theoretically the behavior of a class of hydrodynamic dipoles. This study is motivated by recent experiments on synthetic and biological swimmers in microfluidic extit{Hele-Shaw} type geometries. Under such confinement, a swimmer's hydrodynamic signature is that of a potential source dipole, and the long-range interactions among swimmers are obtained from the superposition of dipole singularities. Here, we recall the equations governing the positions and orientations of interacting asymmetric swimmers in doubly-periodic domains, and focus on the dynamics of swimmer pairs. We obtain two families of `relative equilibria'-type solutions that correspond to pursuit and synchronization of the two swimmers, respectively. Interestingly, the pursuit mode is stable for large tail swimmers whereas the synchronization mode is stable for large head swimmers. These results have profound implications on the collective behavior reported in several recent studies on populations of confined microswimmers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00490

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zbMATH Keywords

stability analysishydrodynamic interactionsconfined microswimmers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10) Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

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