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  • Gallery of Fluid Motion
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Mixing in chaotic flows with swimming bacteria

Ranjiangshang Ran1,*, Quentin Brosseau1, Brendan C. Blackwell1,2, Boyang Qin1,3, Rebecca L. Winter1, and Paulo E. Arratia1,†

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
  • 3Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

  • *ranr@seas.upenn.edu
  • parratia@seas.upenn.edu

Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 110511 – Published 7 November, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.110511

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This paper is associated with a poster winner of a 2021 American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original poster is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2021.GFM.P0036.

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