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A Microfluidic-based Hydrodynamic Trap for Single Particles
Published on: January 21, 2011
Ewald sum for hydrodynamic interactions of rigid spherical microswimmers
Tapan Chandra Adhyapak1, Sara Jabbari-Farouji1
1Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 7-9, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Abstract:
We derive the Ewald sum decomposition of the grand mobility tensor which captures the hydrodynamic interactions in an infinite suspension of rigid spherical microswimmers. The grand mobility tensor connects the motion of an individual swimmer to the active and passive forces and torques acting on all the swimmers, and it is calculated based on a minimal microswimmer model incorporating the swimmers' finite body size. Our results have direct applications to the Stokesian dynamics simulations of an infinite suspension of rigid-bodied microswimmers. They also provide a platform to develop more advanced methods such as particle-mesh-Ewald-sum and accelerated Stokesian dynamics simulations.
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