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Micropolar fluid theory, an extension of classical Newtonian fluid dynamics, incorporates angular velocities and rotational inertias and has long been a foundational framework for describing granular flows. We propose a macroscopic model of…

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We present the hydrodynamics of fluids in three spatial dimensions with helical symmetry, wherein only a linear combination of a rotation and translation is conserved in one of the three directions. The hydrodynamic degrees of freedom…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-29 Jack H. Farrell , Xiaoyang Huang , Andrew Lucas

The hydrodynamic flow of the chiral electron fluid in a Weyl semimetal slab of finite thickness is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic theory. The latter includes viscous, anomalous, and vortical effects, as well as accounts for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Asymmetrically charged, nonspherical colloidal particles in general perform complex rotations and oblique motions under an electric field. The interplay of electrostatic and hydrodynamic forces complicate the prediction of these motions. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Lara Braverman , Aaron Mowitz , Thomas A. Witten

We introduce a new mechanism for the propulsion and separation by chirality of small ferromagnetic particles suspended in a liquid. Under the action of a uniform d.c. magnetic field H and an a.c. electric field E isomers with opposite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Kirkinis , A. V. Andreev , B. Spivak

We address the issue of evaluating chiral effects (such as the newly discovered chiral separation) in hydrodynamic approximation. The main tool we use is effective theory which defines interaction in terms of chemical potentials…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-07 A. V. Sadofyev , V. I. Shevchenko , V. I. Zakharov

The hydrodynamic description of transversally thermalized matter, possibly formed at the early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, is developed. The formalism is based on the thermodynamically consistent approach with all…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Mikolaj Chojnacki , Wojciech Florkowski

Compared to isotropic liquids, orientational order of nematic liquid crystals makes their rheological properties more involved, and thus requires fine control of the flow parameters to govern the orientational patterns. In microfluidic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-03 Simon Čopar , Žiga Kos , Tadej Emeršič , Uroš Tkalec

We use the dynamic length and time scale separation in suspensions to formulate a general description of colloidal thermophoresis. Our approach allows an unambiguous definition of separate contributions to the colloidal flux and clarifies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-19 Jerome Burelbach , Daan Frenkel , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Erika Eiser

We investigate the interplay of thermophoretic force and interfacial tension on the capillary filling dynamics of a Newtonian nanofluid in a microchannel. In our model, we also consider an intricate thermofluidic coupling by taking the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Soumya Bandyopadhyay , Suman Chakraborty

Using the Poisson bracket method, we construct the hydrodynamics of nuclear matter in the chiral limit, which describes the dynamics of all low-energy degrees of freedom, including the fluid-dynamical and pionic ones. The hydrodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. T. Son

The dynamics of a molecule immersed in a superfluid medium are considered. Results are derived using a classical hydrodynamic approach followed by canonical quantization. The classical model, a rigid body immersed in incompressible fluid,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael J. Quist , Veit Elser

We consider the propulsion of micron-scale chiral objects by electromagnetic fields in fluids - a problem with broad applications in microfluidics, pharmaceutics, and biomedicine. Because of the small size of the moving objects, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-25 S. Aif , I. A. Kuk , D. E. Kharzeev

In this paper we argue that the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma can be considered as a chiral superfluid. The "normal" component of the fluid is the thermalized matter in common sense, while the "superfluid" part consists of long…

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The dynamics of a vesicle suspension in a shear flow between parallel plates has been investigated under microgravity conditions, where vesicles are only submitted to hydrodynamic effects such as lift forces due to the presence of walls and…

Self-propulsion allows living systems to display unusual collective behavior. Unlike passive systems in thermal equilibrium, active matter systems are not constrained by conventional thermodynamic laws. A question arises however as to what…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-18 Sho C. Takatori , John F. Brady

The lack of detailed balance in active colloidal suspensions allows dissipation to determine stationary states. Here we show that slow viscous flow produced by polar or apolar active colloids near plane walls mediates attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-24 Rajesh Singh , R. Adhikari

The nonlinear breakup dynamics of a strip of active chiral fluid is considered, and it is shown that the strip thickness goes to zero as a power law in finite time. Applying slender body theory to the hydrodynamic equations of active chiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-12 Luke Neville , Jens Eggers , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

We derive the set of inequalities that is necessary and sufficient for nonlinear causality and linear stability of first-order relativistic hydrodynamics with either a $U(1)_V$ conserved current or a $U(1)_A$ current with a chiral anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Nick Abboud , Enrico Speranza , Jorge Noronha

Hydrodynamics with both vector and axial currents is under study within a holographic model, consisting of canonical $U(1)_V\times U(1)_A$ gauge fields in an asymptotically AdS$_5$ black brane. When gravitational back-reaction is taken into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-28 Yanyan Bu , Rong-Gen Cai , Qing Yang , Yun-Long Zhang