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SOFT MATTER
Volume 12, Issue 38, Pages 7959-7968Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6sm01353h
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- EU intra-European fellowship DyCoCoS FP7-PEOPLE-IEF [623637]
- UK EPSRC grant [EP/J007404/1]
- EPSRC [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present a lattice Boltzmann study of the hydrodynamics of a fully resolved squirmer, confined in a slab of fluid between two no-slip walls. We show that the coupling between hydrodynamics and short-range repulsive interactions between the swimmer and the surface can lead to hydrodynamic trapping of both pushers and pullers at the wall, and to hydrodynamic oscillations in the case of a pusher. We further show that a pusher moves significantly faster when close to a surface than in the bulk, whereas a puller undergoes a transition between fast motion and a dynamical standstill according to the range of the repulsive interaction. Our results critically require near-field hydrodynamics and demonstrate that far-field hydrodynamics is insufficient to give even a qualitatively correct account of swimmer behaviour near walls. Finally our simulations suggest that it should be possible to control the density and speed of squirmers at a surface by tuning the range of steric and electrostatic swimmer-wall interactions.
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