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Fluids composed of chiral active components can exhibit odd viscosity, a property that breaks time-reversal and parity symmetries. We investigate the hydrodynamic response to monopole and dipole singularities in a compressible thin fluid…

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We investigate the transition between elastic and viscous regimes for time-reversal broken Weyl semimetals. In these materials, Hall transport occurs through two parallel channels: the Fermi sea and the Fermi surface. The Fermi sea part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Yonatan Messica , Alex Levchenko , Dmitri B. Gutman

Recently the materials possessing structure of molecular and supramolecular matrix are more and more actively studied. They are relative to many polymeric materials of a technological origin, such as rubber, and living biological tissues.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-06-27 A. A. Bedulina , A. V. Kobelev

The breaking of detailed balance in fluids through Coriolis forces or odd-viscous stresses has profound effects on the dynamics of surface waves. Here we explore both weakly and strongly non-linear waves in a three-dimensional fluid with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-04 Alex Doak , Guido Baardink , Paul A Milewski , Anton Souslov

Autonomous and driven transport in chiral active fluids have been shown to exhibit features that cannot be accommodated within the classical formulation of fluid mechanics, due to the role of odd viscosity. We generalize the theory of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-24 Michalis Chatzittofi , Yuto Hosaka , Andrej Vilfan , Ramin Golestanian

In this paper, we study the thermo-elastodynamics of nonlinearly viscous solids in the Kelvin-Voigt rheology where both the elastic and the viscous stress tensors comply with the frame-indifference principle. The system features a force…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 S. Almi , R. Badal , M. Friedrich , S. Schwarzacher

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of the number density fluctuations of a dilute suspension of active particles in a linear viscoelastic fluid. We propose a model for the frequency-dependent diffusion coefficient of the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-08 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Rosalio F. Rodriguez , Elizabeth Salinas-Rodriguez

Viscoelastic materials have non-negative relaxation spectra. This property implies that viscoelastic response functions satisfy certain necessary and sufficient conditions. It is shown that these conditions can be expressed in terms of each…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Seredyńska , A. Hanyga

The thermodynamical model of visco-elastic deformable solids at finite strains is formulated in a fully Eulerian way in rates. Also effects of thermal expansion or buoyancy due to evolving mass density in a gravity field are covered. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Tomáš Roubíček

The values of liquid odd-viscosity coefficients remain largely unknown, with only a single experimental measurement reported to date [Nature Physics 15, 1188 (2019)]. In this work, inspired by the well-known consequences of dispersion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 E. Kirkinis , A. Levchenko

When the time-reversal and parity symmetries in a fluid are broken, transverse transport coefficients can arise in response to perturbations, an example being odd viscosity. We refer to these systems as odd fluids. While much progress has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-19 Ege Eren , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

We study a model of contraction-based cell motility inside a microchannel to investigate the regulation of cell polarization and motion by the mechanical resistance of the environment. A positive feedback between the asymmetry of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Tapas Singha , Pierre Sens

A fluid, with broken time-reversal symmetry, would exhibit odd transport coefficients, such as odd viscosity, thermal conductivity and diffusion coefficient, which may fundamentally alter the fluid properties and significantly influence the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Yuxing Jiao , Mingcheng Yang

Complex elastic media such as biological membranes, in particular, blood vessels, may be described as fiber-reinforced solids in the framework of nonlinear hyperelasticity. Finite axially symmetric anti-plane shear displacements in such…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Alexei Cheviakov , Caylin Lee , Rehana Naz

A host of elastic systems consisting of active components exhibit path-dependent elastic behaviors not found in classical elasticity, which is known as odd elasticity. Odd elasticity is characterized by antisymmetric (odd) elastic modulus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-29 Yi-Heng Zhang , Zhenwei Yao

Continuum elasticity is a powerful tool applicable in a broad range of physical systems and phenomena. Yet, understanding how and on what scales material disorder may lead to the breakdown of continuum elasticity is not fully understood. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-11 Edan Lerner , Eran Bouchbinder

Temporal metamaterials are artificially manufactured materials with time-dependent material properties that exhibit interesting phenomena when waves propagate through them. The propagation of electromagnetic waves in such time-varying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Christian Döding , Barbara Verfürth

We investigate the lateral dynamics in a purely viscous lipid membrane surrounded by viscoelastic media such as polymeric solutions. We first obtain the generalized frequency-dependent mobility tensor and focus on the case when the solvent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Komura , S. Ramachandran , K. Seki

Using Onsager's variational principle, we derive dynamical equations for a nonequilibrium active system with odd elasticity. The elimination of the extra variable that is coupled to the nonequilibrium driving force leads to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Li-Shing Lin , Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto , Yuto Hosaka , Shigeyuki Komura

We consider a continuum model of active viscoelastic matter, whereby an active nematic liquid-crystal is coupled to a minimal model of polymer dynamics with a viscoelastic relaxation time $\tau_C$. To explore the resulting interplay between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-30 E. J. Hemingway , M. E. Cates , S. M. Fielding