3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Hydrodynamic capture and release of a microswimmer by a meniscus corner
Subhasish Guchhait, Harshita Tiwari, Sumesh P. Thampi +1
Biological microswimmers alter their motility in complex corner geometries, facilitating their survival. However, the dynamical features of low-Reynolds-number swimming at corners…
physics.flu-dyn2025
Modeling complex motility patterns for autophoretic microswimmers
Anupriya Dutta Roy, Smita S. Sontakke, Arvind Kumar +2
Symmetry breaking is essential for biological microswimmers to achieve locomotion in viscous environments. Such asymmetry in the swimming mechanism enables the generation of direct…
cond-mat.soft2025
Emergence of run-and-tumble-like swimming in self-propelling artificial swimmers in soft microchannels
Smita S. Sontakke, Aneesha Kajampady, Mohd Suhail Rizvi +1
Biological microswimmers often encounter deformable boundaries in physiological conditions; for instance, the viscoelastic walls of reproductive tract during migration of spermatoz…