Analysis of motion of bacteria with rotating flagella

JSME International Journal, Series B: Fluids and Thermal Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-66

  Goto, Tomonobu ^a   Itou, Makoto ^a   Takano, Yasunari ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofluid Mechanics; Flagellar Hydrodynamics; Fluid Force; Motility; Resistive Force Theory; Swimming Bacterium; Three Dimensional Flow; Viscous Flow

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRODYNAMICS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

BIOFLUID MECHANICS; FLAGELLAR HYDRODYNAMICS; MOTILITY; RESISTIVE FORCE THEORY;

BACTERIA;

EID: 0032002653     PISSN: 13408054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmeb.41.60     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Chwang, A. T. and Wu, T. Y., A Note on the Helical Movement of Micro-Organisms, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond, Ser. B 178 (1971), p. 327.
2. Keller, J. and Rubinow, S. I., Swimming of Flagellated Microorganisms, Biophys. J., Vol. 16 (1976), p. 151.
3. Takano, Y., Goto, T. and Usui, Y., Analyses on Propulsion Mechanism of Micro-Organism with a Helical Flagellum, Trans. Jpn. Soc. Mech. Eng., (in Japanese), Vol. 62, No. 593, B (1996), p. 211.
4. Higdon, J. J. L., A Hydrodynamic Analysis of Flagellar Propulsion, J. Fluid. Mech., Vol. 90 (1979), p. 685.
5. Ramia, M., Tullock, D. L. and Phan-Thien, N., The Role of Hydrodynamic Interaction in the Locomotion of Microorganisms, Biophys. J., Vol. 65 (1993), p. 755.
6. Goto, T., Taga, Y. and Takano, Y., Study on Resistive Force Theory for Flagella with Boundary Element Method, Trans. Jpn. Soc. Mech. Eng., (in Japanese), Vol. 63, No. 605, B (1997) p. 188.
7. Gray, J. and Hancock, G. J., The Propulsion of Sea-Urchin Spermatozoa, J. Exp. Biol., Vol. 32 (1955), p. 802.
8. Andrietti, F. and Bernardini, G., The Movement of Spermatozoa with Helical Head: Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Results, Biophys. J., Vol. 67 (1994), p. 1767.
9. Johnson, R. E. and Brokaw, C. J., Flagellar Hydrodynamics : A Comparison between Resistive-Force Theory and Slender-Body Theory, Biophys. J., Vol. 25 (1979), p. 113.
10. Macnab, R. M. and Ornston, M. K., Normal-to-Curly Flagellar Transitions and Their Role in Bacterial Tumbling : Stabilization of an Alternative Quaternary Structure by Mechanical Force, J. Mol. Biol., Vol. 112 (1977), p. 1.
11. Lowe, G., Meister, M. and Berg, H. C., Rapid Rotation of Flagellar Bundles in Swimming Bacteria, Nature, Vol. 325, No. 12 (1987), p. 637.
12. Lighthill, J., Flagellar Hydrodynamics, SIAM Review, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1976), p. 161.