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Accumulation of motile elongated micro-organisms in turbulence
Caijuan Zhan, Gaetano Sardina, Enkeleida Lushi +1
We study the effect of turbulence on marine life by performing numerical simulations of motile microorganisms, modelled as prolate spheroids, in isotropic homogeneous turbulence. W…
Auto-chemotactic micro-swimmer suspensions: modeling, analysis and simulations
Enkeleida Lushi, Raymond E. Goldstein, Michael J. Shelley
Microorganisms can preferentially orient and move along gradients of a chemo-attractant (i.e., chemotax) while colonies of many microorganisms can collectively undergo complex dyna…
Spontaneous ordering of a bacterial drop into a spiral vortex
Hugo Wioland, Enkeleida Lushi, Raymond E. Goldstein
In this fluid dynamics video we explore the nature and causes of the spontaneous ordering that emerges in a dense bacterial suspension under confinement. Recent experiments with B.…