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Modelling bacterial behaviour close to a no-slip plane boundary: the influence of bacterial geometry
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We describe a boundary-element method used to model the hydrodynamics of a bacterium propelled by a single helical flagellum. Using this model, we optimize the power efficiency of swimming with respect to cell body and flagellum geometrical parameters, and find that optima for swimming in unbounded fluid and near a no-slip plane boundary are nearly indistinguishable. We also consider the novel optimization objective of torque efficiency and find a very different optimal shape. Excluding effec...
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- Journal:
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
- Volume:
- 466
- Issue:
- 2118
- Pages:
- 1725-1748
- Publication date:
- 2010-06-08
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- EISSN:
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1471-2946
- ISSN:
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1364-5021
- Source identifiers:
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54685
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- English
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pubs:54685
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- pubs:54685
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2010
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