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Microswimmers in vortices: dynamics and trapping

Biological and artificial microswimmers often self-propel in external flows of vortical nature; relevant examples include algae in small-scale ocean eddies, spermatozoa in uterine peristaltic flows and bacteria in microfluidic devices. A recent experiment has shown that swimming bacteria in model vo...

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Autores principales: Tanasijević, Ivan, Lauga, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9727827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36408908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00907b