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往复游动强化扩散

Enhanced diffusion by reciprocal swimming

Eric Lauga

摘要:

珀塞尔的扇形定理指出,游泳者以时间可逆的方式(“往复”运动)变形他们的形状不能游泳。使用数值模拟和理论计算,我们在这里表明,在一个波动的环境中,互惠游泳者经历,在时间尺度上大于他们的旋转扩散,扩散动力学增强扩散系数,可能由数量级,高于正常的平移扩散。因此,往复致动确实导致了对诸如海洋细菌的小生物体的非运动行为的显著优势。

英文摘要:

Purcell's scallop theorem states that swimmers deforming their shapes in a time-reversible manner ("reciprocal" motion) cannot swim. Using numerical simulations and theoretical calculations we show here that in a fluctuating environment, reciprocal swimmers undergo, on time scales larger than that of their rotational diffusion, diffusive dynamics with enhanced diffusivities, possibly by orders of magnitude, above normal translational diffusion. Reciprocal actuation does therefore lead to a significant advantage over non-motile behavior for small organisms such as marine bacteria.

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