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Migration of active filaments under Poiseuille flow in a microcapillary tube

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We present a comprehensive study of active filaments confined in a cylindrical channel under Poiseuille flow. The activity drives the filament towards the channel boundary, whereas external fluid flow migrates the filament away from the boundary. This migration further shifts towards the centre for higher flow strength. The migration behaviour of the filaments is presented in terms of the alignment order parameter that shows the alignment grows with shear and activity. Further, we have also addressed the role of length of filament on the migration behaviour, which suggests higher migration for larger filaments. Moreover, we discuss the polar ordering of filaments as a function of distance from the centre of channel that displays upstream motion near the boundary and downstream motion at the centre of the tube.

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The authors acknowledge HPC facility at IISER Bhopal for the computation resources. SPS thanks DST (SERB) grant no CRG/2020/000661. SKA thanks IISER Bhopal for the funding.

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SKA wrote all the codes, data creation, data analysis, visualization and writing of the draft. SPS contributed to conceptualization, helped in writing code, funding acquisition, full-supervision of the research and conceived the original idea of the project. All the authors have contributed equally in writing and editing the manuscript at all stages.

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Anand, S.K., Singh, S.P. Migration of active filaments under Poiseuille flow in a microcapillary tube. Eur. Phys. J. E 44, 150 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00153-3

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