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Transient dispersion process of active particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2021

Weiquan Jiang Open the ORCID record for Weiquan Jiang [Opens in a new window]  and
Guoqian Chen Open the ORCID record for Guoqian Chen [Opens in a new window]
Weiquan Jiang
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
Guoqian Chen*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China
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†Email address for correspondence: gqchen@pku.edu.cn
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Abstract

Active particles often swim in confined environments. The transport mechanisms, especially the global one as reflected by the Taylor dispersion model, are of great practical interest to various applications. For the active dispersion process in confined flows, previous analytical studies focused on the long-time asymptotic values of dispersion characteristics. Only several numerical studies preliminarily investigated the temporal evolution. Extending recent studies of Jiang & Chen (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 877, 2019, pp. 1–34; vol. 899, 2020, A18), this work makes a semi-analytical attempt to investigate the transient process. The temporal evolution of the local distribution in the confined-section–orientation space, drift, dispersivity and skewness, is explored based on moments of distributions. We introduce the biorthogonal expansion method for solutions because the classic integral transform method for passive transport problems is not applicable due to the self-propulsion effect. Two types of boundary condition, the reflective condition and the Robin condition for wall accumulation, are imposed respectively. A detailed study on spherical and ellipsoidal swimmers dispersing in a plane Poiseuille flow demonstrates the influences of the swimming, shear flow, initial condition, wall accumulation and particle shape on the transient dispersion process. The swimming-induced diffusion makes the local distribution reach its equilibrium state faster than that of passive particles. Although the wall accumulation significantly affects the evolution of the local distribution and the drift, the time scale to reach the Taylor regime is not obviously changed. The shear-induced alignment of ellipsoidal particles can enlarge the dispersivity but impacts slightly on the drift and the skewness.

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Biological Fluid Dynamics: Swimming/flying Mass Transport: Dispersion
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 927 , 25 November 2021 , A11
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