期刊
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
卷 694, 期 -, 页码 155-190出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.534
关键词
bioconvection; computational methods; micro-organism dynamics
资金
- KAUST [KUK-I1-007-43]
- King Saud University in Riyadh [NoRGP- VPP-124]
- Fondation Sciences Mathematiques de Paris
- Royal Society
- NSF [DMS-0712898, DMS-1115682, DMS-1115718]
- NAWI Graz
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1115682] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [W1244] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Aquatic bacteria like Bacillus subtilis are heavier than water yet they are able to swim up an oxygen gradient and concentrate in a layer below the water surface, which will undergo Rayleigh-Taylor-type instabilities for sufficiently high concentrations. In the literature, a simplified chemotaxis-fluid system has been proposed as a model for bioconvection in modestly diluted cell suspensions. It couples a convective chemotaxis system for the oxygen-consuming and oxytactic bacteria with the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations subject to a gravitational force proportional to the relative surplus of the cell density compared to the water density. In this paper, we derive a high-resolution vorticity-based hybrid finite-volume finite-difference scheme, which allows us to investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a two-dimensional chemotaxis-fluid system with boundary conditions matching an experiment of Hillesdon et al. (Bull. Math. Biol., vol. 57, 1995, pp. 299-344). We present selected numerical examples, which illustrate (i) the formation of sinking plumes, (ii) the possible merging of neighbouring plumes and (iii) the convergence towards numerically stable stationary plumes. The examples with stable stationary plumes show how the surface-directed oxytaxis continuously feeds cells into a high-concentration layer near the surface, from where the fluid flow (recurring upwards in the space between the plumes) transports the cells into the plumes, where then gravity makes the cells sink and constitutes the driving force in maintaining the fluid convection and, thus, in shaping the plumes into (numerically) stable stationary states. Our numerical method is fully capable of solving the coupled chemotaxis-fluid system and enabling a full exploration of its dynamics, which cannot be done in a linearised framework.
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