English
Related papers

Related papers: Dynamics of a collection of active particles on a …

200 papers

Inert particles suspended in active fluids of self-propelled particles are known to often exhibit enhanced diffusion and novel coherent structures. Here we numerically investigate the dynamical behavior and self-organization in a system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-04 Kyongmin Yeo , Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

We investigate the structural and dynamic properties of active Brownian particles (APs) confined within a soft annulus-shaped channel. Depending on the strength of the confinement and the P\'eclet number, we observe a novel re-entrant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Timo Knippenberg , Ashreya Jayaram , Thomas Speck , Clemens Bechinger

We studied a collection of chiral active particles (CAP) on a two dimensional substrate using extensive numerical study. Particles interact through soft repulsive interaction. The activity and chirality of particles is tuned by varying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-22 Vivek Semwal , Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

In a theoretical and simulation study, active Brownian particles (ABPs) in three-dimensional bulk systems are exposed to time-varying sinusoidal activity waves that are running through the system. A linear response (Green-Kubo) formalism is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-13 Holger Merlitz , Hidde Vuijk , Joseph Brader , Abhinav Sharma , Jense-Uwe Sommer

Active emulsions and liquid crystalline shells are intriguing and experimentally realisable types of topological matter. Here we numerically study the morphology and spatiotemporal dynamics of a double emulsion, where one or two passive…

We study the dynamics of a small solid particle arising from the dewetting of a thin film on a curved substrate driven by capillarity, where mass transport is controlled by surface diffusion. We consider the case when the size of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-06 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Yan Wang , David J. Srolovitz , Tiezheng Qian , Weizhu Bao

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) represent a minimal model of active matter consisting of self-propelled spheres with purely repulsive interactions and rotational noise. Here, we examine the pressure of ABPs in two dimensions in both closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-11 Adam Patch , David Yllanes , M. Cristina Marchetti

Friction is central to the motion of active (self-propelled) objects such as bacteria, animals, and robots. While in a viscous fluid friction is described by Stokes's law, objects in contact with other solid bodies are often governed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-12 Alexander P. Antonov , Lorenzo Caprini , Anton Ldov , Christian Scholz , Hartmut Löwen

A single light-driven Janus particle confined in a very thin oil droplet at an air--water interface displays intriguing dynamics. While laser activation induces rapid horizontal motion (1mm/s--1cm/s) by thermal Marangoni flow, the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-29 Airi N. Kato , Kaili Xie , Benjamin Gorin , Jean-Michel Rampnoux , Hamid Kellay

We study a binary mixture of disk-shaped {\it active run and tumble } particles (${ARNPs}$) and passive particles on a two-dimensional substrate. Both types of particles are athermal. The particles interact through the soft repulsive…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Vivek Semwal , Jay Prakash , Shradha Mishra

A recently introduced particle-based model for fluid dynamics with effective excluded volume interactions is analyzed in detail. The interactions are modeled by means of stochastic multiparticle collisions which are biased and depend on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel

The movement of motor particles consisting of one or several molecular motors bound to a cargo particle is studied theoretically. The particles move on patterns of immobilized filaments. Several patterns are described for which the motor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Klumpp , Reinhard Lipowsky

We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

There are many examples of driven and active matter systems containing particles that exhibit circular motion with different chiralities, such as swimming bacteria near surfaces or certain types of self-driven colloidal particles. Circular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Dynamics of active deformable particles in an external Poiseuille flow is investigated. In order to make the analysis general, we employ time-evolution equations derived from symmetry considerations that take into account an elliptical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-07 Mitsusuke Tarama

Dynamical features of tagged particles are studied in a one dimensional $A+A \rightarrow kA$ system for $k=0$ and 1, where the particles $A$ have a bias $\epsilon$ $(0 \leq \epsilon \leq 0.5)$ to hop one step in the direction of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-15 Reshmi Roy , Purusattam Ray , Parongama Sen

We develop and present a unified multi-scale model (involving three scales of spatial organisation) to study the dynamics of rigid aggregating particles suspended in a viscous fluid medium and subject to a steady poiseuille flow. At…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-10 Sarthok Sircar , Anthony J. Roberts

We consider model of a complex particle that consists of a rigid shell and a nucleus with spatial asymmetric interaction. The particle's dynamics with the nucleus driven by a periodic excitation is considered. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Denisov

We study the dynamical properties of an active particle subject to a swimming speed explicitly depending on the particle position. The oscillating spatial profile of the swim velocity considered in this paper takes inspiration from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen