3 papers
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…
cond-mat.soft2024
Flow fields around active droplets squeezing through tight confinements
Subhasish Guchhait, Smita Sontakke, Shubhadeep Mandal +1
Biological microswimmers, like euglena, deform their body shape to swim through tight confinements having length scales comparable to the microswimmer length scale. Recently, it wa…