Hydrodynamic Clustering of Human Sperm in Viscoelastic Fluids

Abstract We have numerically investigated sperm clustering behaviours, modelling cells as superpositions of regularised flow singularities, coarse-grained from experimentally obtained digital microscopy of human sperm, both in watery medium and a highly viscous–weakly elastic, methylcellulose medium...

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Main Authors: Kenta Ishimoto, Eamonn A. Gaffney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33584-8