Bacterial hydrodynamics
By Eric Lauga. 2015
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Bacteria predate plants and animals by billions of years. Today, they are the world’s smallest cells yet they represent the bulk of the world’s biomass, and the main reservoir of nutrients for higher organisms. Most bacteria can move on their own, and the majority of motile bacteria are able to swim in viscous fluids using slender helical appendages called flagella. Low-Reynoldsnumber hydrodynamics is at the heart of the ability of flagella to generate propulsion at the micron scale. In fact, fluid dynamic forces impact many aspects of bacteriology, ranging from the ability of cells to reorient and search their surroundings to their interactions within mechanically and chemically-complex environments. Using hydrodynamics as an organizing framework, we review the biomechanics of bacterial motility and look ahead to future challenges.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77c958a4c54c02d63a8ff88305277ee8412e5527
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Citations in the corpus
- Microswimming in viscoelastic fluids (2021, unknown): “view articles [21, 42, 43, 19, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48] and books [49, 50, 51].”
- Anisotropic Particles in Turbulence (2017, methodology): “Similar trends have been reported for a quasi-DNS by Lecrivain et al. (2016).”
- Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets (2022, background): “Swimming cells and other biological swimmers achieve this by performing successions of shape changes (known as strokes), most commonly through the beating of active filaments (flagella, cilia) anchored on the cellular membrane (Brennen & Winet 1977, Lauga 2016).”