1. Statistical Mobility of Multicellular Colonies of Flagellated Swimming Cells.
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Ashenafi, Yonatan and Kramer, Peter R.
- Abstract
We study the stochastic hydrodynamics of colonies of flagellated swimming cells, typified by multicellular choanoflagellates, which can form both rosette and chainlike shapes. The objective is to link cell-scale dynamics to colony-scale dynamics for various colonial morphologies. Via autoregressive stochastic models for the cycle-averaged flagellar force dynamics and statistical models for demographic cell-to-cell variability in flagellar properties and placement, we derive effective transport properties of the colonies, including cell-to-cell variability. We provide the most quantitative detail on disclike geometries to model rosettes, but also present formulas for the dynamics of general planar colony morphologies, which includes planar chain-like configurations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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