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Microscale locomotion in a nematic liquid crystal
Madison S. Krieger, Saverio E. Spagnolie, Thomas R. Powers
Microorganisms often encounter anisotropy, for example in mucus and biofilms. We study how anisotropy and elasticity of the ambient fluid affects the speed of a swimming microorgan…
A locally gradient-preserving reinitialization for level set functions
Lei Li, Xiaoqian Xu, Saverio E. Spagnolie
The level set method commonly requires a reinitialization of the level set function due to interface motion and deformation. We extend the traditional technique for reinitializing…
Microorganism Billiards
Saverio E. Spagnolie, Colin Wahl, Joseph Lukasik +1
Recent experiments and numerical simulations have shown that certain types of microorganisms "reflect" off of a flat surface at a critical angle of departure, independent of the an…