It was established in the previous works that hydrodynamic interactions between the swimmers can lead to collective motion. Its implicit evidences were confirmed by reduction in the effective viscosity. We propose a new quantitative criterion to detect such a collective behavior. Our criterion is based on a new computationally effective RVE (representative volume element) theory based on the basic statistic moments (e-sums or generalized Eisenstein-Rayleigh sums). The criterion can be applied to various two-phase dispersed media (biological systems, composites etc). The locations of bacteria are modeled by short segments having a small width randomly embedded in medium without overlapping. We compute the e-sums of the simulated disordered sets and of the observed experimental locations of Bacillus subtilis. The obtained results show a difference between these two sets that demonstrates the collective motion of bacteria.
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