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physics.bio-ph2018
Swimming of peritrichous bacteria is enabled by an elastohydrodynamic instability
Emily E. Riley, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga
Peritrichously-flagellated bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, self-propel in fluids by using specialised motors to rotate multiple helical filaments. The rotation of each motor is…
physics.bio-ph2017
An empirical resistive-force theory for slender biological filaments in shear-thinning fluids
Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga
Many cells exploit the bending or rotation of flagellar filaments in order to self-propel in viscous fluids. While appropriate theoretical modelling is available to capture flagell…
physics.bio-ph2015
Small-amplitude swimmers can self-propel faster in viscoelastic fluids
Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga
Many small organisms self-propel in viscous fluids using travelling wave-like deformation of their bodies or appendages. Examples include small nematodes moving through soil using…