Abstract
Little is known about the mass transport in microbial suspension in previous studies. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of the swimming motion on the nutrient uptake. We modeled a microorganism as a squirmer and calculated its locomotion by boundary element method . Moreover we simulated the nutrient uptake by tracking nutrient particles. The results show that the nutrient uptake is strongly affected by the swimming mode of a microorganism.
