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The roles of momentum flux at different scales

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Auteur / Autrice : Antoine Fruleux
Direction : Ken Sekimoto
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : [Matière condensée et interfaces]
Date : Soutenance en 2014
Etablissement(s) : Paris 7

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Dictyostelim Discoideum forms a multi-cellular 3D aggregate when starved. This aggregate, coordinated by the interior chemical waves of cAMP, migrates like a siime in which the individual cells undergo active ''cortical flow'' — a topological combination of the presence of ''pushers'' and. . Pullers''. It was already known that, paradoxically, the migrating aggregate can exert a ''bulk'' force whose magnitude increases with its volume rather than with its contact area with surrounding objects. To understand the origin of such a force, we formulated a general mechanical description in terms of the momentum flux and angular momentum flux, where the fluxes are described by the force and torque at the cell-cell interfaces of arbitrary shape and interaction [1]. Applied to the steady motion of the aggregate, the theory explains how the cortical flow of the bulk cells gives rise to the force of migration through the coupling between the linear momentum and angular momentum fluxes. Our model also describes the data of migrating velocity under external force hitherto unexplained [2]. [1] AF and K. Sekimoto, arXiv:1406. 4820v2 (under review). [2] idem (in preparation).