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Enhancement of bacterial rheotaxis in non-Newtonian fluids
Bryan O. Torres Maldonado, Albane Théry, Ran Tao +3
Bacteria often exhibit upstream swimming, which can cause the contamination of biomedical devices and the infection of organs including the urethra or lungs. This process, called r…
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Bacteria hinder large-scale transport and enhance small-scale mixing in time-periodic flows
Ranjiangshang Ran, Quentin Brosseau, Brendan C. Blackwell +3
Understanding mixing and transport of passive scalars in active fluids is important to many natural (e.g. algal blooms) and industrial (e.g. biofuel, vaccine production) processes.…