Modelling bacterial twitching in fluid flows: a CFD-DEM approach
P. G. Jayathilake, B. Li, P. Zuliani, T. Curtis, J. Chen
This paper develops a CFD-DEM model to simulate bacterial twitching motility in shear flows and identifies optimal wall shear stress for efficient upstream movement.
bioRxiv · Jun 10, 2019Biophysics