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From active stresses and forces to self-propulsion of droplets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

R. Kree Open the ORCID record for R. Kree [Opens in a new window] ,
P. S. Burada  and
A. Zippelius
R. Kree*
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
P. S. Burada
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur – 721302, India
A. Zippelius
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

We study the self-propulsion of spherical droplets as simplified hydrodynamic models of swimming micro-organisms or artificial micro-swimmers. In contrast to approaches that start from active velocity fields produced by the system, we consider active interface tractions, body force densities and active stresses as the origin of autonomous swimming. For negligible Reynolds number and given activity, we compute the external and internal flow fields as well as the centre of mass velocity and angular velocity of the droplet at fixed time. To construct trajectories from single time snapshots, the evolution of active forces or stresses must be determined in the laboratory frame. Here, we consider the case of active matter, which is carried by a continuously distributed rigid but sparse (cyto)-skeleton that is immersed in the droplet interior. We calculate examples of trajectories of a droplet and its skeleton from force densities or stresses, which may be explicitly time-dependent in a frame fixed within the skeleton.

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Biological Fluid Dynamics: Micro-organism dynamics Low-Reynolds-number flows: Stokesian dynamics Biological Fluid Dynamics: Swimming/flying
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 821 , 25 June 2017 , pp. 595 - 623
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