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Direct Measurements Of Collective Swimming Forces At The Mesoscale
Objetive
Swimming is ubiquitous in nature and crucial for the survival of a wide range of organisms. Many swimmers move together in intricate swarms, widely believed to save energy through collective hydrodynamic interactions. While the physics behind swimming and swarming of viscosity-dominated microswimmers and inertia-dominated macroswimmers has been extensively studied, little is known about the intermediate regime (~ 0.1–10 cm), where both viscous and inertial forces are important. This mesoscale is full of living organisms, such as small larvae, shrimps, and jellyfish, and the physics behind their swimming and swarming is strongly complicated by non-linear and time-dependent effects at increasing swimming speeds and organism sizes. A breakthrough in our understanding of mesoscale swarming dynamics is hindered by an absence of force-based experiments on collective mesoswimming.
Funded Under
European Research Council (Erc)
Total Cost
€ 1 500 000,00
Eu Contribution
€ 1 500 000,00
Coordinated By
Aalto Korkeakoulusaatio Sr
Finland
