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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.168101
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- EPSRC
- BBSRC
- Marie-Curie Program
- Schlumberger Chair Fund
- BBSRC [BB/F021844/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F021844/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Swimming microorganisms create flows that influence their mutual interactions and modify the rheology of their suspensions. While extensively studied theoretically, these flows have not been measured in detail around any freely-swimming microorganism. We report such measurements for the microphytes Volvox carteri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The minute (similar to 0.3%) density excess of V. carteri over water leads to a strongly dominant Stokeslet contribution, with the widely-assumed stresslet flow only a correction to the subleading source dipole term. This implies that suspensions of V. carteri have features similar to suspensions of sedimenting particles. The flow in the region around C. reinhardtii where significant hydrodynamic interaction is likely to occur differs qualitatively from a puller stresslet, and can be described by a simple three-Stokeslet model.
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