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There is a long-standing question about the molecular configuration of interfacial water molecules in the proximity of solid surfaces, particularly carbon atoms which play a crucial role in electrochemistry and biology. In this study, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Iman Ahmadabadi , Ali Esfandiar , Ali Hassanali , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

In a viscous incompressible fluid, the hydrodynamic forces acting on two close-to-touch rigid particles in relative motion always become arbitrarily large, as the interparticle distance parameter $\varepsilon$ goes to zero. In this paper we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Haigang Li , Xueting Wang , Zhiwen Zhao

Phoretic particles self-propel using self-generated physico-chemical gradients at their surface. Within a suspension, they interact hydrodynamically by setting the fluid around them into motion, and chemically by modifying the chemical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Eva Kanso , Sebastien Michelin

Flagellated bacteria are hydrodynamically attracted to rigid walls, yet past work shows a 'hovering' state where they swim stably at a finite height above surfaces. We use numerics and theory to reveal the physical origin of hovering.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Pyae Hein Htet , Debasish Das , Eric Lauga

From extensive molecular dynamics simulations on immiscible two-phase flows, we find the relative slipping between the fluids and the solid wall everywhere to follow the generalized Navier boundary condition, in which the amount of slipping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tiezheng Qian , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ping Sheng

We derive the Hydrodynamics for a system of N active, spherical, underdamped particles, interacting through conservative forces. At the microscopic level, we represent the evolution of the particles in terms of the Kramers equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Lorenzo Caprini

In this short survey we compare aspects of two different approaches for scaling limits of interacting particle systems, the hydrodynamic limit and the high density limit. We present some examples, comments and open problems on each approach…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Tertuliano Franco

Self-propelled particles have been experimentally shown to orbit spherical obstacles and move along surfaces. Here, we theoretically and numerically investigate this behavior for a hydrodynamic squirmer interacting with spherical objects…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-05 Michael Kuron , Philipp Stärk , Christian Holm , Joost de Graaf

The dynamic behavior of a hard-sphere colloidal suspension was studied by X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy and Small Angle X-ray Scattering over a wide range of particle volume fractions. The short-time mobility of the particles was…

For a cell moving in hydrodynamic flow above a wall, translational and rotational degrees of freedom are coupled by the Stokes equation. In addition, there is a close coupling of convection and diffusion due to the position-dependent…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2008-07-14 C. B. Korn , U. S. Schwarz

We consider hydrodynamic scaling limits for a class of reversible interacting particle systems, which includes the symmetric simple exclusion process and certain zero-range processes. We study a (non-quadratic) microscopic action functional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Marcus Kaiser , Robert L. Jack , Johannes Zimmer

Directed transport of self-propelled particles is numerically investigated in a three-dimensional asymmetric potential. Beside the steric repulsive forces, hydrodynamic interactions between particles have been taken into account in an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-12 Bao-quan Ai , Ya-feng He , Wei-rong Zhong

The hydrodynamic interactions between a sedimenting microswimmer and a solid wall have ubiquitous biological and technological applications. A plethora of gravity-induced swimming dynamics near a planar no-slip wall provides a platform for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-14 Henry Shum , Devenayagam Palaniappan , Yuan-Nan Young

We study the dynamics of one-dimensional active particles confined in a double-well potential, focusing on the escape properties of the system, such as the mean escape time from a well. We first consider a single-particle both in near and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Systems of spherical particles moving in Stokes flow are studied for a different particle internal structure and boundaries, including the Navier-slip model. It is shown that their hydrodynamic interactions are well described by treating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Bogdan Cichocki , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Eligiusz Wajnryb

Collective motion is often modeled within the framework of active fluids, where the constituent active particles, when interactions with other particles are switched off, perform normal diffusion at long times. However, in biology,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-02 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

We study experimentally and theoretically the hydrodynamic interaction of pairs of circular inclusions in two-dimensional, fluid smectic membranes suspended in air. By analyzing their Brownian motion, we find that the radial mutual…

Hydrodynamic behavior at the vicinity of a confining wall is closely related to the friction properties of the liquid/solid interface. Here we consider, using Molecular Dynamics simulations, the electric contribution to friction for charged…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Laurent Joly , Christophe Ybert , Emmanuel Trizac , Lyderic Bocquet

Hydrodynamic interaction strongly influences the collective behavior of the microswimmers. With this work, we study the behavior of two hydrodynamically interacting self-propelled chiral swimmers in the low Reynolds number regime,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-28 Ruma Maity , P. S. Burada

Biological adhesion is a critical mechanical function of complex organisms operating at multiple scales. At the cellular scale, cell-cell adhesion is remarkably tunable to enable both cohesion and malleability during development,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-07 Dimitri Kaurin , Pradeep K. Bal , Marino Arroyo