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Transport at microscopic length scales is essential in biological systems and various technologies, including microfluidics. Recent experiments achieved self-organized transport phenomena in microtubule active matter using light to modulate…

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Particle dynamics and multi-agent systems provide accurate dynamical models for studying and forecasting the behavior of complex interacting systems. They often take the form of a high-dimensional system of differential equations…

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Understanding the organization of collective motion in biological systems is an ongoing challenge. In this Paper we consider a minimal model of self-propelled particles with variable speed. Inspired by experimental data from schooling fish,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shradha Mishra , Kolbjørn Tunstrøm , Iain D. Couzin , Cristián Huepe

Hyperuniform particle arrangements are characterized by a local number variance that grows more slowly than the volume of the observation window. We generalize this concept to describe particle systems in which particles carry weights:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 Salvatore Torquato , Jaeuk Kim , Michael A. Klatt , Roberto Car , Paul J. Steinhardt

Biological active matter is typically tightly coupled to chemical reaction networks affecting its assembly-disassembly dynamics and stress generation. We show that localized states can emerge spontaneously if assembly of active matter is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Luca Barberi , Karsten Kruse

We derive macroscopic dynamics for self-propelled particles in a fluid. The starting point is a coupled Vicsek-Stokes system. The Vicsek model describes self-propelled agents interacting through alignment. It provides a phenomenological…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-20 Pierre Degond , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Fabien Vergnet , Hui Yu

Understanding the behavior of particles in a dispersed phase system via population balances holds fundamental importance in studies of particulate sciences across various fields. Particle behavior, however, is sophisticated as a single…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Simon Ing Xun Tiong , Firnaaz Ahamed , Yong Kuen Ho

In this work we derive and analyze coarse-grained descriptions of self-propelled particles with selective attraction-repulsion interaction, where individuals may respond differently to their neighbours depending on their relative state of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Grossmann , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Pawel Romanczuk

Swimmers and self-propelled particles are physical models for the collective behaviour and motility of a wide variety of living systems, such as bacteria colonies, bird flocks and fish schools. Such artificial active materials are amenable…

The acoustofluidic method holds great promise for manipulating microorganisms. When exposed to the steady vortex structures of acoustic streaming flow, these microorganisms exhibit intriguing dynamic behaviors, such as hydrodynamic trapping…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-25 Xuyang Sun , Wenchang Tan , Yi Man

Dense suspensions of self-propelled rod-like particles exhibit a fascinating variety of non-equilibrium phenomena. By means of computer simulations of a minimal model for rigid self-propelled colloidal rods with variable shape we explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 H. H. Wensink , H. Löwen

We study the behaviour of catalytically active droplets in multi-component conserved mixtures affected by noise. Working in the thin interface limit, we analytically determine the state diagram of the system, characterized by multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Jacopo Romano , Martin Kjøllesdal Johnsrud , Benoît Mahault , Ramin Golestanian

Systems of dynamical interactions between competing species can be used to model many complex systems, and can be mathematically described by {\em random} networks. Understanding how patterns of activity arise in such systems is important…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-21 Nick McCullen , Thomas Wagenknecht

We study a simple swarming model on a two-dimensional lattice where the self-propelled particles exhibit a tendency to align ferromagnetically. Volume exclusion effects are present: particles can only hop to a neighboring node if the node…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Fernando Peruani , Tobias Klauss , Andreas Deutsch , Anja Voss-Boehme

We present a data-driven framework for learning hydrodynamic equations from particle-based simulations of active matter. Our method leverages coarse-graining in both space and time to bridge microscopic particle dynamics with macroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-18 Bappaditya Roy , Natsuhiko Yoshinaga

The counterintuitive emergence of order from noise is a central phenomenon in science, ranging from pattern formation and synchronization to order-by-disorder in frustrated systems. While large-scale spatial self-organization induced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Satyam Anand , Guanming Zhang , Stefano Martiniani

A fundamental question in complex systems is how to relate interactions between individual components ("microscopic description") to the global properties of the system ("macroscopic description"). Another fundamental question is whether…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-08 Dan Gorbonos , Felix Oberhauser , Luke L. Costello , Yannick Günzel , Einat Couzin-Fuchs , Benjamin Koger , Iain D. Couzin

We consider the hydrodynamic theory of an active fluid of self-propelled particles with nematic aligning interactions. This class of materials has polar symmetry at the microscopic level, but forms macrostates of nematic symmetry. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-17 Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

Mechanochemical processes on surfaces such as the cellular cortex or epithelial sheets, play a key role in determining patterns and shape changes of biological systems. To understand the complex interplay of hydrodynamics and material flows…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-04 Lucas D. Wittwer , Sebastian Aland

Numerical simulations of positively-buoyant suspension in a horizontally rotating cylinder were performed to study the formation of radial and axial patterns. The order parameter for low-frequency segregated phase and dispersed phase is…

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