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The role of disorder in the motion of chiral swimmers in the presence of obstacles

Roon, Danne M van; Volpe, Giorgio; Gama, Margarida M Telo da; Araújo, Nuno AM; (2022) The role of disorder in the motion of chiral swimmers in the presence of obstacles. Cornell University (Cornell Tech): New York (NY), USA. Green open access

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Abstract

The presence of obstacles is intuitively expected to hinder the diffusive transport of micro-swimmers. However, for chiral micro-swimmers, a low density of obstacles near a surface can enhance their diffusive behavior, due to the rectification of the chiral motion by the obstacles. Here, we study numerically the role that disorder plays in determining the transport dynamics of chiral micro-swimmers on surfaces with obstacles. We consider different densities of regularly spaced obstacles and distinct types of disorder: noise in the dynamics of the micro-swimmer, quenched noise in the positions of the obstacles as well as obstacle size polydispersity. We show that, depending on the type and strength of the disorder, the presence of obstacles can either enhance or hinder transport, and discuss implications for the control of active transport in disordered media.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: The role of disorder in the motion of chiral swimmers in the presence of obstacles
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.13509
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author 2022. Original content in this paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149715
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