Microswimming in viscoelastic fluids

Self-propulsion of a freely suspended swimmer by a swirling tail in a viscoelastic fluid

(2021) Jeremy P. Binagia et al.   Physical Review Fluids

Enhanced Rotational Motion of Spherical Squirmer in Polymer Solutions

(2020) Kai Qi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Non-Newtonian effects on the slip and mobility of a self-propelling active particle

(2020) Akash Choudhary et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Suspension of deformable particles in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids in a microchannel

(2019) Amir Hossein Raffiee et al.   Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Enhanced bacterial swimming speeds in macromolecular polymer solutions

(2019) Andreas Zöttl et al.   Nature Physics

On the rheology of particle suspensions in viscoelastic fluids

(2019) Eric S. G. Shaqfeh   AICHE JOURNAL

A note on higher-order perturbative corrections to squirming speed in weakly viscoelastic fluids

(2019) Charu Datt et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Viscoelastic propulsion of a rotating dumbbell

(2019) J. Amadeus Puente-Velázquez et al.   Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Active particles in geometrically confined viscoelastic fluids

(2019) N Narinder et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Numerical investigation of elasto-inertial particle focusing patterns in viscoelastic microfluidic devices

(2019) Amir Hossein Raffiee et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Electrophoresis in dilute polymer solutions

(2019) Gaojin Li et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Hydrodynamic interaction of a self-propelling particle with a wall

(2018) Zaiyi Shen et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

Hydrodynamics-mediated trapping of micro-swimmers near drops

(2018) Nikhil Desai et al.   Soft Matter

Confined Flow: Consequences and Implications for Bacteria and Biofilms

(2018) Jacinta C. Conrad et al.   Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Reduced viscosity for flagella moving in a solution of long polymer chains

(2018) Yuchen Zhang et al.   Physical Review Fluids

Memory-Induced Transition from a Persistent Random Walk to Circular Motion for Achiral Microswimmers

(2018) N Narinder et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Two-sphere swimmers in viscoelastic fluids

(2018) Charu Datt et al.   Physical Review Fluids

The mechanism of propulsion of a model microswimmer in a viscoelastic fluid next to a solid boundary

(2017) Thomas R. Ives et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Effect of a planar interface on time-averaged locomotion of a spherical squirmer in a viscoelastic fluid

(2017) Shahrzad Yazdi et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Autophoretic locomotion in weakly viscoelastic fluids at finite Péclet number

(2017) Giovanniantonio Natale et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Optimal run-and-tumble–based transportation of a Janus particle with active steering

(2017) Tomoyuki Mano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling of active swimmer suspensions and their interactions with the environment

(2017) Nikhil Desai et al.   Soft Matter

Dynamics of a microorganism in a sheared viscoelastic liquid

(2017) Marco De Corato et al.   Soft Matter

Fluid viscoelasticity promotes collective swimming of sperm

(2017) Chih-kuan Tung et al.   Scientific Reports

Bundling of elastic filaments induced by hydrodynamic interactions

(2017) Yi Man et al.   Physical Review Fluids

Biopolymer dynamics driven by helical flagella

(2017) Andrew K. Balin et al.   Physical Review Fluids

Bacterial Hydrodynamics

(2016) Eric Lauga   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Active colloids in complex fluids

(2016) Alison E. Patteson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Spherical squirmers: models for swimming micro-organisms

(2016) T. J. Pedley   IMA JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Enhanced flagellar swimming through a compliant viscoelastic network in Stokes flow

(2016) Jacek K. Wróbel et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

The cost of swimming in generalized Newtonian fluids: experiments with C. elegans

(2016) D. A. Gagnon et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Helical propulsion in shear-thinning fluids

(2016) Saúl Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Squirmers with swirl: a model for Volvox swimming

(2016) T. J. Pedley et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

The effect of gait on swimming in viscoelastic fluids

(2016) Gwynn J. Elfring et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Upstream Swimming in Microbiological Flows

(2016) Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Collective Motion of Microorganisms in a Viscoelastic Fluid

(2016) Gaojin Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dynamics of Self-Propelled Janus Particles in Viscoelastic Fluids

(2016) Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

An immersed boundary method for two-phase fluids and gels and the swimming of Caenorhabditis elegans through viscoelastic fluids

(2016) Pilhwa Lee et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Modeling a spheroidal microswimmer and cooperative swimming in a narrow slit

(2016) Mario Theers et al.   Soft Matter

Swimming Droplets

(2016) Corinna C. Maass et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Undulatory swimming in non-Newtonian fluids

(2015) Gaojin Li et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Dynamics of particle migration in channel flow of viscoelastic fluids

(2015) Gaojin Li et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Squirming through shear-thinning fluids

(2015) Charu Datt et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Propulsion of axisymmetric swimmers in viscoelastic liquids by means of torsional oscillations

(2015) G. Böhme et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Swimming Dynamics Near a Wall in a Weakly Elastic Fluid

(2015) S. Yazdi et al.   JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR SCIENCE

Small-amplitude swimmers can self-propel faster in viscoelastic fluids

(2015) Emily E. Riley et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Interplay of physical mechanisms and biofilm processes: review of microfluidic methods

(2015) A. Karimi et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Phase-separation models for swimming enhancement in complex fluids

(2015) Yi Man et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Active Viscoelastic Matter: From Bacterial Drag Reduction to Turbulent Solids

(2015) E. J. Hemingway et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A note on the reciprocal theorem for the swimming of simple bodies

(2015) Gwynn J. Elfring   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Swimming and pumping by helical waves in viscous and viscoelastic fluids

(2015) Lei Li et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Physics of microswimmers—single particle motion and collective behavior: a review

(2015) J Elgeti et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Running and tumbling with E. coli in polymeric solutions

(2015) A. E. Patteson et al.   Scientific Reports

Flagellar Kinematics and Swimming of Algal Cells in Viscoelastic Fluids

(2015) B. Qin et al.   Scientific Reports

Acoustic Propulsion of Nanorod Motors Inside Living Cells

(2014) Wei Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enhanced active swimming in viscoelastic fluids

(2014) Emily E. Riley et al.   EPL

Generalized squirming motion of a sphere

(2014) On Shun Pak et al.   JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

Undulatory swimming in shear-thinning fluids: experiments with Caenorhabditis elegans

(2014) D. A. Gagnon et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Effects of elasticity on the nonlinear collective dynamics of self-propelled particles

(2014) Yaser Bozorgi et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Hydrodynamic interaction of microswimmers near a wall

(2014) Gao-Jin Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Locomotion of microorganisms near a no-slip boundary in a viscoelastic fluid

(2014) Shahrzad Yazdi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Mechanisms of Elastic Enhancement and Hindrance for Finite-Length Undulatory Swimmers in Viscoelastic Fluids

(2014) Becca Thomases et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Failed Escape: Solid Surfaces Prevent Tumbling ofEscherichia coli

(2014) Mehdi Molaei et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Locomotion in complex fluids: Integral theorems

(2014) Eric Lauga   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions

(2014) Vincent A. Martinez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Living liquid crystals

(2014) S. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of solid boundaries on swimming dynamics of microorganisms in a viscoelastic fluid

(2014) G. -J. Li et al.   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number

(2014) Tian Qiu et al.   Nature Communications

Undulatory swimming in fluids with polymer networks

(2013) D. A. Gagnon et al.   EPL

Analysis of non-Newtonian effects in peristaltic pumping

(2013) G. Böhme et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Role of linear viscoelasticity and rotational diffusivity on the collective behavior of active particles

(2013) Yaser Bozorgi et al.   JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY

Speed of a swimming sheet in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids

(2013) Moumita Dasgupta et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Locomotion of Helical Bodies in Viscoelastic Fluids: Enhanced Swimming at Large Helical Amplitudes

(2013) Saverio E. Spagnolie et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

An actuated elastic sheet interacting with passive and active structures in a viscoelastic fluid

(2013) J. C. Chrispell et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Physics of rheologically enhanced propulsion: Different strokes in generalized Stokes

(2013) Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Fluid elasticity increases the locomotion of flexible swimmers

(2013) Julian Espinosa-Garcia et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Biofilm streamers cause catastrophic disruption of flow with consequences for environmental and medical systems

(2013) Knut Drescher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Influence of Mucus Microstructure and Rheology in Helicobacter pylori Infection

(2013) Rama Bansil et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Bacterial aggregation and biofilm formation in a vortical flow

(2012) Shahrzad Yazdi et al.   Biomicrofluidics

A SPH-based particle model for computational microrheology

(2012) Adolfo Vázquez-Quesada et al.   Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Bio-inspired magnetic swimming microrobots for biomedical applications

(2012) Kathrin E. Peyer et al.   Nanoscale

Emergence of a limit cycle for swimming microorganisms in a vortical flow of a viscoelastic fluid

(2012) A. M. Ardekani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Fluid elasticity can enable propulsion at low Reynolds number

(2012) Nathan C. Keim et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Micropropulsion and microrheology in complex fluids via symmetry breaking

(2012) On Shun Pak et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Self-propulsion in viscoelastic fluids: Pushers vs. pullers

(2012) Lailai Zhu et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Revised paradigm of aquatic biofilm formation facilitated by microgel transparent exopolymer particles

(2012) E. Bar-Zeev et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The heterogeneous motility of the Lyme disease spirochete in gelatin mimics dissemination through tissue

(2012) M. W. Harman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biofilms as complex fluids

(2011) James N. Wilking et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Swarming behavior of simple model squirmers

(2011) Shashi Thutupalli et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Effect of viscoelasticity on the collective behavior of swimming microorganisms

(2011) Yaser Bozorgi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Accumulation of swimming bacteria near a solid surface

(2011) Guanglai Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Locomotion by tangential deformation in a polymeric fluid

(2011) Lailai Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Undulatory Swimming in Viscoelastic Fluids

(2011) X. N. Shen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in viscoelastic fluids

(2011) B. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fluid dynamics and noise in bacterial cell-cell and cell-surface scattering

(2011) K. Drescher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fluid Mechanics of Microrheology

(2010) Todd M. Squires et al.   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Low-Reynolds-number swimming in gels

(2010) Henry C. Fu et al.   EPL

Two-dimensional flagellar synchronization in viscoelastic fluids

(2010) GWYNN J. ELFRING et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Instability of uniform micro-organism suspensions revisited

(2010) T. J. PEDLEY   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Pumping by flapping in a viscoelastic fluid

(2010) On Shun Pak et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Active Microrheology: A Proposed Technique to Measure Normal Stress Coefficients of Complex Fluids

(2010) Aditya S. Khair et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Collective Motion of Vibrated Polar Disks

(2010) Julien Deseigne et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Viscoelastic Fluid Response Can Increase the Speed and Efficiency of a Free Swimmer

(2010) Joseph Teran et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Micro- and macrorheology of mucus

(2009) Samuel K. Lai et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Life at high Deborah number

(2009) E. Lauga   EPL

A study of synchronisation between the flagella of bull spermatozoa, with related observations

(2009) D. M. Woolley et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Flexible Microfluidic Device for Mechanical Property Characterization of Soft Viscoelastic Solids Such as Bacterial Biofilms

(2009) Danial N. Hohne et al.   LANGMUIR

Enhanced low-Reynolds-number propulsion in heterogeneous viscous environments

(2009) A. M. Leshansky   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Accumulation of Microswimmers near a Surface Mediated by Collision and Rotational Brownian Motion

(2009) Guanglai Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Hydrodynamic Phase Locking of Swimming Microorganisms

(2009) Gwynn J. Elfring et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Swimming speeds of filaments in nonlinearly viscoelastic fluids

(2009) Henry C. Fu et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Nanoparticles reveal that human cervicovaginal mucus is riddled with pores larger than viruses

(2009) S. K. Lai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Helicobacter pylori moves through mucus by reducing mucin viscoelasticity

(2009) J. P. Celli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

(2009) Eric Lauga et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Bend propagation in the flagella of migrating human sperm, and its modulation by viscosity

(2009) D. J. Smith et al.   CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON

Physiological heterogeneity in biofilms

(2008) Philip S. Stewart et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Flapping motion and force generation in a viscoelastic fluid

(2008) Thibaud Normand et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Beating patterns of filaments in viscoelastic fluids

(2008) Henry C. Fu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Hydrodynamic Attraction of Swimming Microorganisms by Surfaces

(2008) Allison P. Berke et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Two spheres in a free stream of a second-order fluid

(2008) A. M. Ardekani et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Real-Time High Resolution 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host

(2008) Tara J. Moriarty et al.   PLoS Pathogens