Suppression of bacterial rheotaxis in wavy channels
Suppression of bacterial rheotaxis in wavy channels
Controlling the swimming behavior of bacteria is crucial, for example, to prevent contamination of ducts and catheters. We show that bacteria modeled by deformable microswimmers can accumulate in flows through straight microchannels either in their center or on previously unknown attractors near the channel walls. In flows through wavy microchannels …