Bridging the microscopic and the hydrodynamic in active filament solutions
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
Hydrodynamic equations for an isotropic solution of active polar filaments are derived from a microscopic mean-field model of the forces exchanged between motors and filaments. We find that a spatial dependence of the motor stepping rate along the filament is essential to drive bundle formation. A number of differences arise as compared to hydrodynamics derived (earlier) from a mesoscopic model where relative filament velocities were obtained on the basis of symmetry considerations. Due to the anisotropy of filament diffusion, motors are capable of generating net filament motion relative to the solvent. The effect of this new term on the stability of the homogeneous state is investigated.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406276,
title = {Bridging the microscopic and the hydrodynamic in active filament solutions},
author = {T. B. Liverpool and M. Cristina Marchetti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406276},
year = {2015}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Europhys. Lett