Lisa Fauci, Tulane University, Confined helical swimmers and coupled oscillators: two studies in elastohydrodynamics
SAS 1102Through the actuation of elastic filaments, microorganisms can move through a viscous fluid or generate a flow within a complex environment. In this talk, we will focus on simple models of two such systems. First, as a step towards understanding the chemotactic behavior of bacteria within micropores, we consider a single elastic helical flagellum confined…