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A paradigm for internally driven matter is the active nematic liquid crystal, whereby the equations of a conventional nematic are supplemented by a minimal active stress that violates time reversal symmetry. In practice, active fluids may…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-15 E. J. Hemingway , A. Maitra , S. Banerjee , M. C. Marchetti , S. Ramaswamy , S. M. Fielding , M. E. Cates

Coupled mixed convective and stratified systems are common in natural flows. To study experimentally the associated dynamics, we use a singular property of water: its non-linear equation of state is characterised by a maximum density close…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-10 Pierre Léard , Benjamin Favier , Patrice Le Gal , Michael Le Bars

By constructing a hydrodynamic canonical formalism, we show that the occurrence of an arbitrary density-dependent gauge potential in the meanfield Hamiltonian of a Bose-condensed fluid invariably leads to nonlinear flow-dependent terms in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-06 Y. Buggy , L. G. Phillips , P. Öhberg

Hydrophobic force, interfacial tension, transverse density profile in confined water system are addressed from first principles of statistical mechanics in a lattice model for water. Using molecular mean field theory technique we deduce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-14 Jampa Maruthi Pradeep Kanth , Ramesh Anishetty

Generalized Navier-Stokes equations which were proposed recently to describe active turbulence in living fluids are analyzed rigorously. Results on wellposedness and stability in the $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$-setting are derived. Due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Florian Zanger , Hartmut Löwen , Jürgen Saal

While nucleation in typical active and driven fluids often appears equilibrium-like, striking departures emerge when large-scale fluctuations are strongly suppressed. Here, we investigate nucleation in nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Raphaël Maire

Pressure is the mechanical force per unit area that a confined system exerts on its container. In thermal equilibrium, it depends only on bulk properties (density, temperature, etc.) through an equation of state. Here we show that in a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-17 A. P. Solon , Y. Fily , A. Baskaran , M. E. Cates , Y. Kafri , M. Kardar , J. Tailleur

Dense, active systems show active turbulence, a state characterised by flow fields that are chaotic, with continually changing velocity jets and swirls. Here we review our current understanding of active turbulence. The development is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Sumesh P. Thampi , Julia M. Yeomans

We employ a novel hydrodynamic framework for active matter coupled to an environment to study the local temperature of an active nematic, assuming proximity to thermal equilibrium. We show that, due to the mechanosensitivity of fuel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-15 Jay Armas , Akash Jain , Ruben Lier

When the energy functional of a Bose-condensed state of matter features an effective gauge potential which depends on the density $\rho$ of the condensate, the kinetic energy density of the matter field becomes nonlinear in $\rho$ and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-28 Yvan Buggy , Patrik Öhberg

Controlling interfaces of phase separating fluid mixtures is key to creating diverse functional soft materials. Traditionally, this is accomplished with surface-modifying chemical agents. Using experiment and theory, we study how mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-15 Raymond Adkins , Itamar Kolvin , Zhihong You , Sven Witthaus , M. Cristina Marchetti , Zvonimir Dogic

The formation of dynamical patterns is one of the most striking features of nonequilibrium physical systems. Recent work has shown that such patterns arise generically from forces that violate Newton's third law, known as nonreciprocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 James Mason , Robert L. Jack , Maria Bruna

Because of the spatially long-ranged nature of spontaneous fluctuations in thermal non-equilibrium systems, they are affected by boundary conditions for the fluctuating hydrodynamic variables. In this paper we consider a liquid mixture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-21 J. M. Ortiz de Zarate , T. R. Kirkpatrick , J. V. Sengers

A generalized reciprocal theorem is formulated for the motion and hydrodynamic force moments of an active particle in an arbitrary background flow of a (weakly nonlinear) complex fluid. This formalism includes as special cases a number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Gwynn J. Elfring

The manuscript focuses on the theoretical stability analysis of the viscous liquid over a vibrating inclined rigid bed when the fluid undergoes an impact of odd viscosity. Such an impact emerges in the classical fluid owing to the broken…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-01 Md. Mouzakkir Hossain , Mrityunjoy Saha , Harekrushna Behera , Sukhendu Ghosh

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

The linked fluid dynamics videos depict Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence when driven by a complex acceleration profile involving two stages of acceleration interspersed with a stage of stabilizing deceleration. Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 P. Ramaprabhu , V. Karkhanis , A. G. W. Lawrie

It is shown that the so-called generic instabilities that appear in the framework of relativistic linear irreversible thermodynamics, describing the fluctuations of a simple fluid close to equilibrium, arise due to the coupling of heat with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-31 A. L. Garcia-Perciante , L. S. Garcia-Colin , A. Sandoval-Villalbazo

A rigoros analytical justification of turbulence observed in active fluids and caused by self-propulsion is presented. We prove existence of unstable wave modes for the generalized Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems by developing an approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Christiane Bui , Hartmut Löwen , Jürgen Saal

Active fluids, such as suspensions of microswimmers, are known to self-organize into complex spatio-temporal flow patterns. An intriguing example is mesoscale turbulence, a state of dynamic vortex structures exhibiting a characteristic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Henning Reinken , Sebastian Heidenreich , Markus Bär , Sabine H. L. Klapp
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