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Active droplets can swim spontaneously in viscous flows as a result of the non-linear convective transport of a chemical solute produced at their surface by the Marangoni and/or phoretic flows generated by this solute's inhomogeneous…

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In particle systems, flocking refers to the phenomenon where particles' individual velocities eventually align. The Cucker-Smale model is a well-known mathematical framework that describes this behavior. Many continuous descriptions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Sebastian Zimper , Federico Cornalba , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad , Ana Djurdjevac

Here we introduce a two-dimensional (2D) low-Reynolds swimmer and discuss the motion of the swimmer both in noise-free and stochastic regimes. Three spheres, linked by extensible arms, in a plane form the triangle body of micro-swimmer.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-11 Mehran Ebrahimian , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

This paper proposes a novel particle scheme that provides convergent approximations of a weak solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for the 1-D flow of a viscous compressible fluid. Moreover, it is shown that all differential inequalities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Iasson Karafyllis , Markos Papageorgiou

In order for a droplet to rebound rather than coalesce with a liquid bath, a layer of gas must persist throughout the impact. This gas, typically an air layer acts as a lubricant to the system and permits a pressure transfer between the two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Katie A Phillips , Radu Cimpeanu , Paul A Milewski

For challenging state estimation problems arising in domains like vision and robotics, particle-based representations attractively enable temporal reasoning about multiple posterior modes. Particle smoothers offer the potential for more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ali Younis , Erik B. Sudderth

Swimming in curved spacetimes is a phenomenon whereby free bodies in curved spacetimes are able to propel themselves by performing cyclic internal motions. When originally proposed, it was further suggested that, in the limit of fast…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 Rodrigo Andrade e Silva

A two-fluid model is derived from the plasma kinetic equations using the moment model reduction method. The moment method we adopt was recently developed with a globally hyperbolic regularization where the moment model attained is locally…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Ruo Li , Yixiao Lu , Yanli Wang

Active suspensions, which consist of suspended self-propelling particles such as swimming microorganisms, often exhibit non-trivial transport properties. Continuum models are frequently employed to elucidate phenomena in active suspensions,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-14 Lloyd Fung , Hakan O. Caldag , Martin A. Bees

Breaking spatial symmetry is an essential requirement for phoretic active particles to swim at low Reynolds number. This fundamental prerequisite for swimming at the micro-scale is fulfilled either by chemical patterning of the surface of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-20 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Andrej Vilfan , Ramin Golestanian

We introduce a novel mesoscopic computational model based on a multiphase-multicomponent lattice Boltzmann method for the simulation of self-phoretic particles in the presence of liquid-liquid interfaces. Our model features fully resolved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-22 Lucas Palacios , Andrea Scagliarini , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The properties of an active fluid, for example, a bacterial bath or a collection of microtubules and molecular motors, can be accessed through the dynamics of passive particle probes. Here, in the perspective of analyzing experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-19 Cristian Villalobos , María Luisa Cordero , Eric Clément , Rodrigo Soto

We consider the active Brownian particle (ABP) model for a two-dimensional microswimmer with fixed speed, whose direction of swimming changes according to a Brownian process. The probability density for the swimmer evolves according to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-01 Hongfei Chen , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We theoretically and numerically investigate the instabilities driven by diffusiophoretic flow, caused by a solutal concentration gradient along a reacting surface. The important control parameter is the Peclet number Pe, which quantifies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yibo Chen , Kai Leong Chong , Luoqin Liu , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

We introduce and investigate the wellposedness of a model describing the self-propelled motion of a small abstract swimmer in the 3-D incompressible fluid governed by the nonstationary Stokes equation, typically associated with the low…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-08 A. Y. Khapalov

A substantial number of algorithms exists for the simulation of moving particles suspended in fluids. However, finding the best method to address a particular physical problem is often highly non-trivial and depends on the properties of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-10 Jens Harting , Stefan Frijters , Marco Ramaioli , Martin Robinson , Dietrich E. Wolf , Stefan Luding

We develop a mathematical model for adsorption based on averaging the flow around, and diffusion inside, adsorbent particles in a column. The model involves three coupled partial differential equations for the contaminant concentration both…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-20 Lucy C. Auton , Maria Aguareles , Abel Valverde , Timothy G. Myers , Marc Calvo-Schwarzwalder

Microswimmers are exposed in nature to crowded environments and their transport properties depend in a subtle way on the interaction with obstacles. Here, we investigate a model for a single ideal circle swimmer exploring a two-dimensional…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Thomas Franosch

In recent years, manipulation of particles by inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention. Most studies focused on inertial focusing of particles suspended within liquid phase, in which the ratio of the density of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-07 Maoqiang Jiang , Shizhi Qian , Zhaohui Liu

A pore-scale model is introduced for two-phase flow in dense packings of polydisperse spheres. The model is developed as a component of a more general hydromechanical coupling framework based on the discrete element method, which will be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Chao Yuan , Bruno Chareyre , Félix Darve