Swimming eukaryotic microorganisms exhibit a universal speed distribution
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Computing the distribution of displacements due to swimming microorganisms
with n = N/V the number density of swimmers. This is nonzero (and might diverge) in the limit V → ∞, reflecting the cumulative effect of multiple swimmers. Note that this expression is exact, within the problem assumptions: it doesn’t even require N to be large. It is not at all clear that (4) leads to diffusive behavior, but it does [2–4]: the “support” of the drift function ∆(η, t) typically ...
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عنوان ژورنال: eLife
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2050-084X
DOI: 10.7554/elife.44907