Modelling swimmers in a bag using hydrodynamics
Modelling swimmers in a bag using hydrodynamics
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 14th March 2011
- Speaker: Elsen Tjhung (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Microscopic swimmers such as bacteria often show collective behaviours such as spontaneous ordered state at high density and pattern formations at length scales much larger than the size of the swimmer itself. In this talk, I will present a simple phenomenological model of collective swimmers in a regular fluid and how one can solve them numerically using hybrid lattice Boltzmann algorithm. In particular, I will discuss a model of swimmers trapped in a bag/membrane. If time permits, I will also discuss some results from the simulations.
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