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Mixing between two different miscible fluids with a mutual interface must be initiated by fluid transporting across this fluid interface, caused for example by applying an unsteady velocity agitation. In general, there is no necessity for…
We investigate theoretically the motion of tiny heavy passive particles transported in a plane inviscid flow consisting of two point vortices, in order to understand particle dispersion and trapping during vortex interaction. In spite of…
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The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between…
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