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Generalised geometric swimming for Stokes flow (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2019, November). Generalised geometric swimming for Stokes flow. Presented at 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, Washington

Shapere and Wilczek first demonstrated that the displacement of a microscopic swimmer was related to path integrals over a gauge field. This field is a function of the swimmers configuration and laboratory frame position. For simple 1D swimmers, Stok... Read More about Generalised geometric swimming for Stokes flow.

A Light-Driven Microgel Rotor (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, H., Koens, L., Lauga, E., Mourran, A., & Möller, M. (2019). A Light-Driven Microgel Rotor. Small, 15(46), Article 1903379. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201903379

The current understanding of motility through body shape deformation of micro-organisms and the knowledge of fluid flows at the microscale provides ample examples for mimicry and design of soft microrobots. In this work, a 2D spiral is presented that... Read More about A Light-Driven Microgel Rotor.

Method of regularised stokeslets: Flow analysis and improvement of convergence (2019)
Journal Article
Zhao, B., Lauga, E., & Koens, L. (2019). Method of regularised stokeslets: Flow analysis and improvement of convergence. Physical Review Fluids, 4(8), Article 084104. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.084104

Since their development in 2001, regularised stokeslets have become a popular numerical tool for low-Reynolds number flows since the replacement of a point force by a smoothed blob overcomes many computational difficulties associated with flow singul... Read More about Method of regularised stokeslets: Flow analysis and improvement of convergence.

The near and far of a pair of magnetic capillary disks (2019)
Journal Article
Koens, L., Wang, W., Sitti, M., & Lauga, E. (2019). The near and far of a pair of magnetic capillary disks. Soft matter, 15(7), 1497-1507. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sm02215a

Control on microscopic scales depends critically on our ability to manipulate interactions with different physical fields. The creation of micro-machines therefore requires us to understand how multiple fields, such as surface capillary or electro-ma... Read More about The near and far of a pair of magnetic capillary disks.

The swimming of a deforming helix (2018)
Journal Article
Koens, L., Zhang, H., Moeller, M., Mourran, A., & Lauga, E. (2018). The swimming of a deforming helix. European Physical Journal E, 41(10), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2018-11728-2

Abstract.: Many microorganisms and artificial microswimmers use helical appendages in order to generate locomotion. Though often rotated so as to produce thrust, some species of bacteria such Spiroplasma, Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Spirochetes induc... Read More about The swimming of a deforming helix.

The boundary integral formulation of Stokes flows includes slender-body theory (2018)
Journal Article
Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2018). The boundary integral formulation of Stokes flows includes slender-body theory. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 850, Article R1. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.483

The incompressible Stokes equations can classically be recast in a boundary integral (BI) representation, which provides a general method to solve low-Reynolds-number problems analytically and computationally. Alternatively, one can solve the Stokes... Read More about The boundary integral formulation of Stokes flows includes slender-body theory.

Microscale flow dynamics of ribbons and sheets (2017)
Journal Article
Montenegro-Johnson, T. D., Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2017). Microscale flow dynamics of ribbons and sheets. Soft matter, 13(3), 546-553. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6sm02105k

Numerical study of the hydrodynamics of thin sheets and ribbons presents difficulties associated with resolving multiple length scales. To circumvent these difficulties, asymptotic methods have been developed to describe the dynamics of slender fibre... Read More about Microscale flow dynamics of ribbons and sheets.

Analytical solutions to slender-ribbon theory (2017)
Journal Article
Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2017). Analytical solutions to slender-ribbon theory. Physical Review Fluids, 2(8), Article 084101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.084101

The low-Reynolds-number hydrodynamics of slender ribbons is accurately captured by slender-ribbon theory, an asymptotic solution to the Stokes equation which assumes that the three length scales characterizing the ribbons are well separated. We show... Read More about Analytical solutions to slender-ribbon theory.

The non-Gaussian tops and tails of diffusing boomerangs (2017)
Journal Article
Koens, L., Lisicki, M., & Lauga, E. (2017). The non-Gaussian tops and tails of diffusing boomerangs. Soft matter, 13(16), 2977-2982. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6sm02649d

Experiments involving the two-dimensional passive diffusion of colloidal boomerangs tracked off their centre of mobility have shown striking non-Gaussian tails in their probability distribution function [Chakrabarty et al., Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 431... Read More about The non-Gaussian tops and tails of diffusing boomerangs.

Hydrodynamic interactions between nearby slender filaments (2016)
Journal Article
Man, Y., Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2016). Hydrodynamic interactions between nearby slender filaments. Europhysics Letters, 116(2), Article 24002. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/116/24002

Cellular biology abound with filaments interacting through fluids, from intracellular microtubules, to rotating flagella and beating cilia. While previous work has demonstrated the complexity of capturing nonlocal hydrodynamic interactions between mo... Read More about Hydrodynamic interactions between nearby slender filaments.