Fig. 6: Cylindrical distributions for pushers (β = − 5), pullers (β = 5), and neutral squirmers (β = 0) at \({{{\rm{Re}}}}=0.04\).

a, b refer to monomer density ρ_m and velocity v^m distributions, respectively. Colorbars indicate the magnitude of the corresponding distributions. The green sphere refers to the squirmer with its orientation denoted by a red arrow. The no-slip and repulsive boundary conditions are applied, respectively. The contour plots of monomer number density and velocity are generated by time-averaging the local monomer density and velocity fields in the vicinity of the squirmer, in the cylindrical center-of-mass frame of the swimmer, across multiple time frames.