Elastohydrodynamic Synchronization of Rotating Bacterial Flagella
Elastohydrodynamic Synchronization of Rotating Bacterial Flagella
To rotate continuously without jamming, the flagellar filaments of bacteria need to be locked in phase. While several models have been proposed for eukaryotic flagella, the synchronization of bacterial flagella is less well understood. Starting from a reduced model of flexible and hydrodynamically coupled bacterial flagella, we rigorously coarse grain …