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The rotational dynamics of anisotropic particles advected in a turbulent fluid flow are important in many industrial and natural setting. Particle rotations are controlled by small scale properties of turbulence that are nearly universal,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Shima Parsa , Enrico Calzavarini , Federico Toschi , Greg A. Voth

A model of Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion, is discussed. The general dynamics outlined in Sect. 2 is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benno Tilch , Frank Schweitzer , Werner Ebeling

We have proposed a method for the dynamic simulation of a collection of self-propelled particles in a viscous Newtonian fluid. We restrict attention to particles whose size and velocity are small enough that the fluid motion is in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Vishwajeet Mehandia , Prabhu R. Nott

Active particles (i.e., self-propelled particles or called microswimmers), different from passive Brownian particles, possess more complicated translational and angular dynamics, which can generate a series of anomalous transport phenomena.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Ze-Hao Chen , Zhi-Xi Wu

We study the two-dimensional overdamped motion of an active particle whose orientational dynamics is subject to fractional Brownian noise, whereas its position is affected by self-propulsion and Brownian fluctuations. From a Langevin-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Francisco J. Sevilla

There is a growing interest in the stochastic processes of nonequilibrium systems subject to non-conserved forces, such as the magnetic forces acting on charged particles and the chiral self-propelled force acting on active particles. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-15 Hiromichi Matsuyama , Kunimasa Miyazaki

The emergence of hydrodynamic bend instabilities in ordered suspensions of active particles is widely observed across diverse living and synthetic systems, and is considered to be governed by dipolar active stresses generated by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-09 Sameer Kumar , Niels de Graaf Sousa , Amin Doostmohammadi

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

We computationally study the behavior of underdamped active Brownian particles in a sheared channel geometry. Due to their underdamped dynamics, the particles carry momentum a characteristic distance away from the boundary before it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We study impact of inertia on directed transport of a Brownian particle under non-equilibrium conditions: the particle moves in a one-dimensional periodic and symmetric potential, is driven by both an unbiased time-periodic force and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Aleksandra Słapik , Jerzy Łuczka , Jakub Spiechowicz

Granular materials are an important physical realization of active matter. In vibration-fluidized granular matter, both diffusion and self-propulsion derive from the same collisional forcing, unlike many other active systems where there is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-24 Lee Walsh , Caleb G. Wagner , Sarah Schlossberg , Christopher Olson , Aparna Baskaran , Narayanan Menon

Self-propelled active particles exhibit delayed responses to environmental changes, modulating their propulsion speed through intrinsic sensing and feedback mechanisms. This adaptive behavior fundamentally determines their dynamics and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-21 Viktor Holubec , Alexander Fischer , Giovanni Volpe , Frank Cichos

We study a biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium model consisting of self-propelled particles. In the model, particles move on a plane with a velocity of constant magnitude; they locally interact with their neighbors by choosing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andras Czirok , H. Eugene Stanley , Tamas Vicsek

Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

Motion of elongated particles in shear is studied. In applications where particles are much heavier than the carrying fluid, e.g. aerosols, the influence of particle inertia dominates the particle dynamics. Assuming that the particle only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-24 Joar Bagge , Tomas Rosén , Fredrik Lundell , Anna-Karin Tornberg

Inertial particles in stably stratified flows play a fundamental role in geophysics, from the dynamics of nutrients in the ocean to the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere. We consider the Maxey-Riley equation for small neutrally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-08 Christian Reartes , Pablo D. Mininni

Active colloidal particles provide versatile model systems for exploring non-equilibrium physics in motile matter. To date, most experimental realizations have focused on spherical particles, largely due to fabrication constraints. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-10 Mengshi Wei , Daniela J. Kraft

Collections of simple, self-propelled colloidal particles exhibit complex, emergent dynamical behavior, with promising applications in microrobotics. When confined within a deformable vesicle, self-propelled rods cluster and align,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-28 Sophie Y. Lee , Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer , Sharon C. Glotzer

Worm-like filaments that are propelled homogeneously along their tangent vector are studied by Brownian dynamics simulations. Systems in two dimensions are investigated, corresponding to filaments adsorbed to interfaces or surfaces. A large…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-23 Rolf E. Isele-Holder , Jens Elgeti , Gerhard Gompper

We consider a moving target and an active pursing agent, modeled as an intelligent active Brownian particle capable of sensing the instantaneous target location and adjust its direction of motion accordingly. An analytical and simulation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Segun Goh , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper