Model microswimmers in channels with varying cross section

Abstract

We study different types of microswimmers moving in channels with varying cross section and thereby interacting hydrodynamically with the channel walls. Starting from the Smoluchowski equation for a dilute suspension, for which interactions among swimmers can be neglected, we derive analytic expressions for the lateral probability distribution between plane channel walls. For weakly corrugated channels we extend the Fick--Jacobs approach to microswimmers and thereby derive an effective equation for the probability distribution along the channel axis. Two regimes arise dominated either by entropic forces due to the geometrical confinement or by the active motion. In particular, our results show that the accumulation of microswimmers at channel walls is sensitive to both, the underlying swimming mechanism and the geometry of the channels. Finally, for asymmetric channel corrugation our model predicts a rectification of microswimmers along the channel, the strength and direction of which strongly depends on the swimmer type.

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