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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…
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…
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…
Enhanced active swimming in viscoelastic fluids
Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga
Swimming microorganisms often self propel in fluids with complex rheology. While past theoretical work indicates that fluid viscoelasticity should hinder their locomotion, recent e…