Run-and-tumble particles with hydrodynamics: Sedimentation, trapping, and upstream swimming

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 25, 2010, Pages

  Nash, R W ^a   Adhikari, R ^a,b   Tailleur, J ^a   Cates, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAR-FIELD; HARMONIC TRAP; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; MINIMAL MODEL; NARROW CHANNEL; NON-EQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATE; POISEUILLE FLOW; RUN LENGTH; SELF-ASSEMBLED; STEADY STATE;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77953937246     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.258101     Document Type: Article

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