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most citedThe N-flagella problem: Elastohydrodynamic motility transition of multi-flagellated bacteria

20 citations · 22 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.flu-dyn2021

Squirmer hydrodynamics near a periodic surface topography

Kenta Ishimoto, Eamonn A. Gaffney, David J. Smith

The behaviour of microscopic swimmers has previously been explored near large scale confining geometries and in the presence of very small-scale surface roughness. Here we consider…

cond-mat.soft2021

Control and controllability of microswimmers by a shearing flow

Clément Moreau, Kenta Ishimoto, Eamonn A. Gaffney +1

With the continuing rapid development of artificial microrobots and active particles, questions of microswimmer guidance and control are becoming ever more relevant and prevalent.…

physics.flu-dyn2019

Efficient simulation of filament elastohydrodynamics in three dimensions

Benjamin J. Walker, Kenta Ishimoto, Eamonn A. Gaffney

Fluid-structure simulations of slender inextensible filaments in a viscous fluid are often plagued by numerical stiffness. Recent coarse-graining studies have reduced the computati…

physics.flu-dyn2019

The pairwise hydrodynamic interactions of synchronized spermatozoa

Benjamin J. Walker, Kenta Ishimoto, Eamonn A. Gaffney

The journey of mammalian spermatozoa in nature is well-known to be reliant on their individual motility. Often swimming in crowded microenvironments, the progress of any single swi…

physics.flu-dyn2019

Filament mechanics in a half-space via regularised Stokeslet segments

Benjamin J. Walker, Kenta Ishimoto, Hermes Gadêlha +1

We present a generalisation of efficient numerical frameworks for modelling fluid-filament interactions via the discretisation of a recently-developed, non-local integral equation…

physics.bio-ph201920 cited

The N-flagella problem: Elastohydrodynamic motility transition of multi-flagellated bacteria

Kenta Ishimoto, Eric Lauga

Peritrichous bacteria such as Escherichia coli swim in viscous fluids by forming a helical bundle of flagellar filaments. The filaments are spatially distributed around the cell bo…