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We theoretically describe the dynamics of swimmer populations confined in thin liquid films. We first demonstrate that hydrodynamic interactions between confined swimmers only depend on their shape and are independent of their specific…

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We formulate a relativistic hydrodynamic theory for fluids with spin and intrinsic dilation charges. Using an entropy-current analysis, we derive constitutive relations featuring a bulk viscosity and a dilation conductivity governing the…

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Computational models of collective behavior in birds has allowed us to infer interaction rules directly from experimental data. Using a generic form of these rules we explore the collective behavior and emergent dynamics of a simulated…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-07-24 Michael Small , Xiaoke Xu

When an ensemble of particles interact hydrodynamically, they generically display large-scale transient structures such as swirls in sedimenting particles [1], or colloidal strings in sheared suspensions [2]. Understanding these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-24 Nicolas Desreumaux , Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Raphael Jeanneret , Eric Lauga , Denis Bartolo

We consider an active Ising model in which spins both diffuse and align on lattice in one and two dimensions. The diffusion is biased so that plus or minus spins hop preferably to the left or to the right, which generates a flocking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-09 A. Solon , J. Tailleur

We numerically study the three-dimensional turbulence in a minimal model of an active fluid--the Toner-Tu-Swift-Hohenburg equation. For small activity, we observe bacterial turbulence, while for large activity, we uncover hitherto…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Prasad Perlekar

This is the first of two articles on the study of a particle system model that exhibits a Turing instability type effect. The model is based on two discrete lines (or toruses) with Ising spins, that evolve according to a continuous time…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Monia Capanna , Nahuel Soprano-Loto

It is shown how to explicitly coarse-grain the microscopic dynamics of the Vicsek model for self-propelled agents. The macroscopic transport equations are derived by means of an Enskog-type kinetic theory. Expressions for all transport…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Thomas Ihle

Inspired by dense contractile tissues, where cells are subject to periodic deformation, we formulate and study a generic hydrodynamic theory of pulsating active liquids. Combining mechanical and phenomenological arguments, we postulate that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-25 Tirthankar Banerjee , Thibault Desaleux , Jonas Ranft , Étienne Fodor

We present a quantitative continuum theory of ``flocking'': the collective coherent motion of large numbers of self-propelled organisms. Our model predicts the existence of an ``ordered phase'' of flocks, in which all members of the flock…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Toner , Yuhai Tu

Hydrodynamic instabilities are usually investigated in confined geometries where the resulting spatiotemporal pattern is constrained by the boundary conditions. Here we study the Faraday instability in domains with flexible boundaries. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-12 Giuseppe Pucci , Emmanuel Fort , Martine Ben Amar , Yves Couder

We develop a many-particle quantum-hydrodynamical model of fermion matter interacting with the external classical electromagnetic and gravitational/inertial and torsion fields. The consistent hydrodynamical formulation is constructed for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-17 Mariya Iv. Trukhanova , Yuri N. Obukhov

We study a model of flocking for a very large system (N=320,000) numerically. We find that in the long wavelength, long time limit, the fluctuations of the velocity and density fields are carried by propagating sound modes, whose dispersion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yuhai Tu , John Toner , Markus Ulm

We consider a continuum model for the dynamics of systems of self propelling particles with kinematic constraints on the velocities. The model aims to be analogous to a discrete algorithm used in works by T. Vicsek et al. In this paper we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-12-16 V. I. Ratushnaya , V. L. Kulinskii , A. V. Zvelindovsky , D. Bedeaux

We study regularity of a hydrodynamic singular model of collective behavior introduced in \cite{ST1}. In this note we address the question of global well-posedness in multi-dimensional settings. It is shown that any initial data $(u,\rho)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Roman Shvydkoy

The collective behavior of active agents, whether herds of wildebeest or microscopic actin filaments propelled by molecular motors, is an exciting frontier in biological and soft matter physics. Almost three decades ago, Toner and Tu…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-25 Christina L. Hueschen , Alexander R. Dunn , Rob Phillips

Fish schooling is often modeled with self-propelled particles subject to phenomenological behavioral rules. Although fish are known to sense and exploit flow features, these models usually neglect hydrodynamics. Here, we propose a novel…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Audrey Filella , François Nadal , Clément Sire , Eva Kanso , Christophe Eloy

We derive relativistic hydrodynamic equations with a dynamical spin degree of freedom on the basis of an entropy-current analysis. The first and second laws of local thermodynamics constrain possible structures of the constitutive relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang , Mamoru Matsuo , Hidetoshi Taya

Starting from a microscopic multiparticle Langevin equation, we systematically derive a hydrodynamic description in terms of density and momentum fields for chiral active particles interacting via standard repulsive and nonlocal odd forces.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-28 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Alessandro Petrini , Raphaël Maire , Lorenzo Caprini

The most conspicuous trait of collective animal behaviour is the emergence of highly ordered structures. Less obvious to the eye, but perhaps more profound a signature of self-organization, is the presence of long-range spatial…

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