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20092023
most citedDancing Volvox: Hydrodynamic Bound States of Swimming Algae

394 citations · 703 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cond-mat.soft2023

Swimming, Feeding and Inversion of Multicellular Choanoflagellate Sheets

Lloyd Fung, Adam Konkol, Takuji Ishikawa +3

The recent discovery of the striking sheet-like multicellular choanoflagellate species that dynamically interconverts between two hemispherical forms of opposite…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Self-organisation of spermatozoa in bulk suspensions via unsteady elastohydrodynamic interactions

Nanami Taketoshi, Toshihiro Omori, Takuji Ishikawa

We developed a mechanical model of spermatozoal swimming in bulk suspensions. We traced the spatiotemporal elastohydrodynamic interactions and found that spermatozoa engaged in sel…

cond-mat.soft2021

Pairwise scattering and bound states of spherical microorganisms

C. Darveniza, T. Ishikawa, T. J. Pedley +1

The dynamic interactions between pairs of swimming microorganisms underpin the collective behaviour of larger suspensions, but accurately calculating pairwise collisions has typica…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Rheology of a concentrated suspension of spherical squirmers: monolayer in simple shear flow

T. Ishikawa, D. R. Brumley, T. J. Pedley

A concentrated, vertical monolayer of identical spherical squirmers, which may be bottom-heavy, and which are subjected to a linear shear flow, is modelled computationally by two d…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 44 cited

Stability of dancing Volvox

Takuji Ishikawa, T. J. Pedley, K. Drescher +1

Biflagellate algal cells of the genus Volvox form spherical colonies that propel themselves, vertically upwards in still fluid, by the coordinated beating of thousands of flagella,…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 51 cited

Motility and Phototaxis of , the Simplest Differentiated Colonial Alga

Hélène de Maleprade, Frédéric Moisy, Takuji Ishikawa +1

Green algae of the lineage, spanning from unicellular to vastly larger , are models for the study of the evolution of multicellularity, flagella…