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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 12: Active Matter II (joint session BP/CPP/DY)

BP 12.10: Talk

Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 12:30–12:45, HÜL 386

Swimming behavior of squirmer dumbbells and polymers — •Judit Clopés Llahí, Gerhard Gompper, and Roland G. Winkler — Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute for Advanced Sim- ulation and Institute of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Nature provides a plethora of microswimmers, which can be rather elongated, filament- or polymer-like. Examples are bacteria swarmer cells or marine phytoplankton dinoflagellates assembling in a linear fashion. In order to address the relevance of hydrodynamic interactions for the collective behavior of such organisms, we study the swimming properties of linear polymer-like assemblies by mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations, where an active unit (monomer) is described by a spherical squirmer -which can be a pusher, a neutral swimmer, or a puller. We find that the monomer hydrodynamic flow field leads to correlations in the relative orientation of adjacent monomers, and consequently the swimming efficiency differs from that of active Brownian linear assemblies. In particular, puller chains show a pronounced increase in the rotational diffusion coefficient compared to pushers, while for neutral squirmers, the rotational diffusion coefficient is similar to that of active Brownian particles. Hence, the large-scale conformational and dynamical properties depend on the specific propulsion mechanism. Refs.: [1] J. Elgeti, R. G. Winkler, G. Gompper, Rep. Prog. Phys. 78, (2015). [2] R. G. Winkler, J. Elgeti, G. Gompper, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 86, (2017). [3] A. Martin-Gomez, T. Eisenstecken, G. Gompper, R. G. Winkler, Soft Matter 15, (2018).