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@ARTICLE{Qi:878547,
author = {Qi, Kai and Annepu, Hemalatha and Gompper, Gerhard and
Winkler, Roland G.},
title = {{R}heotaxis of spheroidal squirmers in microchannel flow:
{I}nterplay of shape, hydrodynamics, active stress, and
thermal fluctuations},
journal = {Physical review research},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
issn = {2643-1564},
address = {College Park, MD},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-02906},
pages = {033275},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Microswimmers exposed to microchannel flows exhibit an
intriguing coupling between propulsion, shape,
hydrodynamics, and flow which gives rise to distinct
swimming behaviors. We employ a generic coarse-grained model
of prolate spheroidal microswimmers, denoted as squirmers,
exposed to channel flow to shed light onto their transport
properties. The embedding fluid is implemented by the
multiparticle collision dynamics approach (MPC), a
particle-based mesoscale simulation method, which includes
thermal fluctuations. Specifically, the influence of swimmer
shape—spherical vs spheroidal—, active stress—pusher,
ciliate, puller—, and thermal fluctuations on their
rheotactic behavior is analyzed. The microswimmers
accumulate at the confining walls at very low flow rates.
With increasing flow strength, squirmers are depleted from
the walls, and at high flow rates are also depleted from the
channel center. The squirmers show pronounced cross-channel
swimming between the confining walls with mixed oscillating
and rotational motions due to thermal fluctuations. This
strongly affects their rheotactic behavior. In particular,
spherical pullers and ciliates swim upstream, whereas
spherical pushers essentially swim downstream. The
anisotropic shape of spheroidal squirmers enhances wall and
center depletion and the alignment of the propulsion
direction parallel to the flow, which leads to preferred
downstream swimming for all active stresses. This emphasizes
the importance of swimmer shape and hydrodynamic wall
interactions on the transport properties of a microswimmer
such as Volvox and Opalina, for example.},
cin = {IBI-5 / JARA-HPC},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBI-5-20200312 / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$},
pnm = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551) /
Collective Dynamics of Microswimmers $(jias21_20191101)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551 / $G:(DE-Juel1)jias21_20191101$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000604157200003},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033275},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/878547},
}