Modelling bacterial behaviour close to a no-slip plane boundary: the influence of bacterial geometry
We describe a boundary-element method used to model the hydrodynamics of a bacterium propelled by a single helical flagellum. Using this model, we optimize the power efficiency of swimming with respect to cell body and flagellum geometrical parameters, and find that optima for swimming in unbounded...
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Royal Society Publishing
2010
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