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ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2025

A computational approach to simulating a three-sphere swimmer in a viscoelastic fluid modelled via the Giesekus constitutive law.

Cara Victoria Neal, Rachel Naomi Bearon

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Article in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Emerging directions for biologically active fluids.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025
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2 authors.

Cara Victoria NealDepartment of Mathematics, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5940-4101
Rachel Naomi BearonDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8461-0823

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microswimmer locomotion in non-Newtonian fluids is crucial for biological processes, including infection, fertilization and biofilm formation. The behaviour of microswimmers in these media is an area with many conflicting results, with swimmers displaying varying responses depending on their morphology, actuation and the complex properties of the surrounding fluid. Using a hybrid computational approach, we numerically investigate the effect of shear-thinning rheology and viscoelasticity on a simple conceptual microswimmer consisting of three linked spheres. Our approach utilizes known Newtonian solution methods (Cortez 2001 The method of regularized Stokeslets (MRS).

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finite element methodsmicroswimmersnon-Newtonianshear-thinningviscoelasticity

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PMID40931649
PMCPMC12423642

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