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Starting from a microscopic multiparticle Langevin equation, we systematically derive a hydrodynamic description in terms of density and momentum fields for chiral active particles interacting via standard repulsive and nonlocal odd forces.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-28 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Alessandro Petrini , Raphaël Maire , Lorenzo Caprini

We study the interplay of activity, order and flow through a set of coarse-grained equations governing the hydrodynamic velocity, concentration and stress fields in a suspension of active, energy-dissipating particles. We make several…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yashodhan Hatwalne , Sriram Ramaswamy , Madan Rao , R. Aditi Simha

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

A statistically stationary and nearly homogeneous turbulent shear flow is established by an additional volume forcing in combination with stress-free boundary conditions in the shear direction. Both turbulent energy and enstrophy are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-19 Joerg Schumacher

Buoyancy effects in unstably stratified mixing layers express themselves through gravity currents of heavy fluid which propagate in an ambient lighter fluid. These currents are encountered in numerous geophysical flows, industrial safety…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernard J. Geurts

Biological membranes are host to proteins and molecules which may form domain-like structures resulting in spatially-varying material properties. Vesicles with such heterogeneous membranes can exhibit intricate shapes at equilibrium and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-22 Prerna Gera , David Salac , Saverio E. Spagnolie

A plane turbulent mixing in a shear flow of an ideal homogeneous fluid confined between two relatively close rigid walls is considered. The character of the flow is determined by interaction of vortices arising at the nonlinear stage of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Alexander Chesnokov , Valery Liapidevskii

We uncover activity-driven crossover from phase separation to a new turbulent state in a two-dimensional system of counter-rotating spinners. We study the statistical properties of this active-rotor turbulence using the active-rotor…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-13 Biswajit Maji , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Rahul Pandit

We here present two simplified models aimed at describing the long-term, irregular behaviours observed in the rheological response of certain complex fluids, such as periodic oscillations or chaotic-like variations. Both models exploit the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Aradian , M. E. Cates

We report hybrid lattice Boltzmann (HLB) simulations of the hydrodynamics of an active nematic liquid crystal sandwiched between confining walls with various anchoring conditions. We confirm the existence of a transition between a passive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Marenduzzo , E. Orlandini , M. E. Cates , J. M. Yeomans

The discontinuous shear thickening (DST) of dense suspensions is a remarkable phenomenon in which the viscosity can increase by several orders of magnitude at a critical shear rate. It has the appearance of a first order phase transition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-12 Romain Mari , Ryohei Seto , Jeffrey F. Morris , Morton M. Denn

We investigate the rheology, microscopic structure, and dynamics of an industrially relevant dispersion made of cationic surfactant vesicles, from dilute to concentrated conditions. We find that these suspensions exhibit a shear-thinning…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-29 Nikolaos Kolezakis , Stefano Aime , Raffaele Pastore , Vincenzo Guida , Gaetano D Avino , Paolo Edera

The transition to turbulence in Rayleigh-Benard convection with phase changes and the resulting convective patterns are studied in a three-dimensional Galerkin model. Our study is focused to the conditionally unstable regime of moist…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-10 Thomas Weidauer , Olivier Pauluis , Joerg Schumacher

We study spatiotemporal chaos in two-dimensional dense active suspensions using a generalized hydrodynamic model. Increasing activity induces a structural transition marked by the formation of intense vortices and giant number fluctuations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Kirti Kashyap , Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Anupam Gupta

Dense suspensions of fine particles are significant in numerous biological, industrial, and natural phenomena. They also provide an ideal tool to develop statistical mechanics description for out-of-equilibrium systems. Predicting the bulk…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Abhinendra Singh

We study the stationary and transient behaviors of the microemulsion phase subjected to a shear flow. The system is described by a diffusion-convective equation which generalizes the usual Cahn-Hilliard equation. Non-linear terms are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Giuseppe Gonnella , Marco Ruggieri

In the present study, we investigated flow structures and properties of elastic turbulence in straight 2D channel viscoelastic fluid flow and tested earlier observations. We discovered self-organized cycling process of weakly unstable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-28 Narsing K. Jha , Victor Steinberg

We numerically study two-dimensional active nematics with periodic activity patterning. For stripes of activity, we observe a transition from two-dimensional to one-dimensional active turbulence as the maximum active force and distance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Cody D. Schimming , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

When turbulent flow is laden with negatively buoyant particles, their mean distribution over the direction of gravity can induce stable density gradients that penalize turbulent fluctuations. This effect is studied numerically for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Jake Langham , Andrew J. Hogg

We use computer simulations to study the morphology and rheological properties of a bidimensional emulsion resulting from a mixture of a passive isotropic fluid and an active contractile polar gel, in the presence of a surfactant that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-30 L. N. Carenza , G. Gonnella , A. Lamura , D. Marenduzzo , G. Negro , A. Tiribocchi