<< In this study, (AA) consider small, elongated, gyrotactic, swimming particles in homogenous isotropic turbulence (..). Many motile phytoplankton species are gyrotactic, i.e., their swimming direction results from the competition between shear-induced viscous torque and the stabilizing torque due to bottom-heaviness. (..) Moreover, both single phytoplankton cells and multicellular phytoplankton chains can have elongated shapes, which makes the study of gyrotactic active particles with prolate shapes necessary. >>
AA addressed the following problems:
<< (i) How the clustering is affected by the swimming number Φ and the stability number Ψ? In particular, how to characterize the extent of clustering based on the three-dimensional Voronoi analysis?
(ii) How the clustering is related to the flow structures? This question has two perspectives. From the space perspective, what are the regions that particles accumulate in? From the time perspective, how long do particles exist in an aggregated state? >>
Zehua Liu, Linfeng Jiang, Chao Sun. Accumulation and alignment of elongated gyrotactic swimmers in turbulence. arXiv:2202.04351v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Feb 9, 2022.
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The effect of noise on the dynamics of microswimmers in externally-driven fluid flows.
keywords 'turbulence' in FonT
keywords 'turbolento' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)
keywords: transition, swimmers, gyrotactic swimmers, spheroids, prolate spheroids, stability, turbulence
