TY  - JOUR
AU  - Elgeti, Jens
AU  - Gompper, Gerhard
TI  - Microswimmers near surfaces
JO  - European physical journal special topics
VL  - 225
IS  - 11-12
SN  - 1951-6401
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer
M1  - FZJ-2016-05981
SP  - 2333 - 2352
PY  - 2016
AB  - Both, in their natural environment and in a controlled experimental setup, microswimmers regularly interact with surfaces. These surfaces provide a steric boundary, both for the swimming motion and the hydrodynamic flow pattern. These effects typically imply a strong accumulation of microswimmers near surfaces. While some generic features can be derived, details of the swimmer shape and propulsion mechanism matter, which give rise to a broad range of adhesion phenomena and have to be taken into account to predict the surface accumulation for a given swimmer. We show in this minireview how numerical simulations and analytic theory can be used to predict the accumulation statistics for different systems, with an emphasis on swimmer shape, hydrodynamics interactions, and type of noisy dynamics.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000387062100018
DO  - DOI:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60070-6
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/820713
ER  -