Effective viscosity of dilute bacterial suspensions: a two-dimensional model
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Effective viscosity of dilute bacterial suspensions: a two-dimensional model.
Suspensions of self-propelled particles are studied in the framework of two-dimensional (2D) Stokesean hydrodynamics. A formula is obtained for the effective viscosity of such suspensions in the limit of small concentrations. This formula includes the two terms that are found in the 2D version of Einstein's classical result for passive suspensions. To this, the main result of the paper is added...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1478-3975
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/5/4/046003