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Colloidal particles moving in a fluid interact via the induced velocity field. The collective dynamic state for a class of actively forced colloids, driven by harmonic potentials via a rule that couples forces to configurations, to perform…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-11 Loïc Damet , Giovanni M. Cicuta , Jurij Kotar , Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino , Pietro Cicuta

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

The transport properties of colloidal particles in active liquids have been studied extensively. It has led to a deeper understanding of the interactions between passive and active particles. However, the phase behavior of colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-30 Pragya Kushwaha , Vivek Semwal , Sayan Maity , Shraddha Mishra , Vijayakumar Chikkadi

Coordinated movement and self-organisation of active self-driven agents is common in nature and is seen across different scales, from herds of animals to collective motion in bacteria. Often, these systems are heterogeneous in composition,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-28 Balagopal Nair , Arshed Nabeel , Danny Raj M

The mechanism of hydrodynamics-induced pairing of soft particles, namely closed bilayer membranes (vesicles, a model system for red blood cells) and drops, is studied numerically with a special attention paid to the role of the confinement…

We study the distribution of colloidal particles confined in drying spherical droplets using both dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) and particle-based simulations. In particular, we focus on the advection-dominated regime typical of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-24 Mayukh Kundu , Kritika Kritika , Yashraj M. Wani , Arash Nikoubashman , Michael P. Howard

When out-of-equilibrium particles interact by means of pairwise forces, their stationary distribution in general exhibits many-body interactions. In the particular case of active particles, it has been shown numerically that the Motility…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Frédéric van Wijland

We consider a suspension of active rigid particles (swimmers) in a steady Stokes flow, where particles are distributed according to a stationary ergodic random process, and we study its homogenization in the macroscopic limit. A key point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Armand Bernou , Mitia Duerinckx , Antoine Gloria

Because active particles break time-reversal symmetry, an active fluid can sustain currents even without an external drive. We show that when a passive body is placed in a fluid of pairwise interacting active particles, it generates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Omer Granek , Yongjoo Baek , Yariv Kafri , Alexandre P. Solon

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

Dry active matter systems are well-known to exhibit Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). However, in wet active systems, attractive hydrodynamic interactions mediated by active particles stalled at a boundary can introduce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Kingshuk Panja , Rajesh Singh

When groups of inertial swimmers move together, hydrodynamic interactions play a key role in shaping their collective dynamics, including the cohesion of the group. To explore how these interactions influence group cohesion, we develop a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-23 Mohamed Niged Mabrouk , Daniel Floryan

Particle-particle interactions in sedimenting systems have been investigated in the present study considering the many-body hydrodynamic and electrodynamic interactions. These interactions primarily occur in two modes: near-field and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Sagardip Majumder , Jayabrata Dhar , Suman Chakraborty

We discuss a simple model of particles hopping in one dimension with attractive interactions. Taking a hydrodynamic limit in which the interaction strength increases with the system size, we observe the formation of multiple clusters of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-05 Matthew Burman , Daniel Carpenter , Robert L. Jack

The hydrodynamic interactions of a suspension of self-propelled particles are studied using a direct numerical simulation method which simultaneously solves for the host fluid and the swimming particles. A modified version of the "Smoothed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-15 John J. Molina , Yasuya Nakayama , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Many active biological particles, such as swimming microorganisms or motor-proteins, do work on their environment by going though a periodic sequence of shapes. Interactions between particles can lead to the phase-synchronization of their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Brato Chakrabarti , Michael J. Shelley , Sebastian Fürthauer

Hydrodynamical interactions of active micro-particles are pervasive in our planet's fluid environments. Hence, understanding the interactions of these self-propelled particles is essential for science and engineering. In this paper the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-28 Yonatan Ashenafi

Nonreciprocal interactions have recently attracted growing interest in nonequilibrium physics. In particular, breaking action-reaction symmetry has been proposed as a mechanism for collective motion, yet controlled experimental realizations…

Despite a mounting evidence that the same gradients which active colloids use for swimming, induce important cross-interactions (phoretic interaction), they are still ignored in most many-body descriptions, perhaps to avoid complexity and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 B. Liebchen , H. Löwen

We study theoretically the behavior of a class of hydrodynamic dipoles. This study is motivated by recent experiments on synthetic and biological swimmers in microfluidic \textit{Hele-Shaw} type geometries. Under such confinement, a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 Eva Kanso , Alan Tsang