Collective entrainment and confinement amplify transport by schooling microswimmers

C Jin, Y Chen, CC Maass, AJTM Mathijssen - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Physical review letters, 2021APS
Microswimmers can serve as cargo carriers that move deep inside complex flow networks.
When a school collectively entrains the surrounding fluid, their transport capacity can be
enhanced. This effect is quantified with good agreement between experiments with self-
propelled droplets and a confined Brinkman squirmer model. The volume of liquid entrained
can be much larger than the droplet itself, amplifying the effective cargo capacity over an
order of magnitude, even for dilute schools. Hence, biological and engineered swimmers …
Microswimmers can serve as cargo carriers that move deep inside complex flow networks. When a school collectively entrains the surrounding fluid, their transport capacity can be enhanced. This effect is quantified with good agreement between experiments with self-propelled droplets and a confined Brinkman squirmer model. The volume of liquid entrained can be much larger than the droplet itself, amplifying the effective cargo capacity over an order of magnitude, even for dilute schools. Hence, biological and engineered swimmers can efficiently transport materials into confined environments.
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