2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Mixing by squirmers in stratified fluids
Vaseem A. Shaik, Gwynn J. Elfring
We find the mixing induced by a small swimming organism in a density stratified fluid. We model the swimmer as a spherical squirmer and quantify mixing through a mixing efficiency…
physics.flu-dyn2024
Swimming efficiency in viscosity gradients
Jiahao Gong, Vaseem A. Shaik, Gwynn J. Elfring
In this note, we study the effect of viscosity gradients on the energy dissipated by the motion of microswimmers and the associated efficiency of that motion. Using spheroidal squi…