Dispersion of biased swimming micro-organisms in a fluid flowing through a tube
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Dispersion of biased swimming microorganisms in a fluid flowing through a tube
Classical Taylor-Aris dispersion theory is extended to describe the transport of suspensions of self-propelled dipolar cells in a tubular flow. General expressions for the mean drift and effective diffusivity are determined exactly in terms of axial moments, and compared with an approximation a la Taylor. As in the Taylor-Aris case, the skewness of a finite distribution of biased swimming cells...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1364-5021,1471-2946
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0606