Swarming and swirling in self-propelled polar granular rods
Other Condensed Matter
2008-12-02 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
Using experiments with anisotropic vibrated rods and quasi-2D numerical simulations, we show that shape plays an important role in the collective dynamics of self-propelled (SP) particles. We demonstrate that SP rods exhibit local ordering, aggregation at the side walls, and clustering absent in round SP particles. Furthermore, we find that at sufficiently strong excitation SP rods engage in a persistent swirling motion in which the velocity is strongly correlated with particle orientation.
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@article{arxiv.0710.5101,
title = {Swarming and swirling in self-propelled polar granular rods},
author = {Arshad Kudrolli and Geoffroy Lumay and Dmitri Volfson and Lev S. Tsimring},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5101},
year = {2008}
}
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4 pages