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The combined impact of axial stretching and cross-stream diffusion on the downstream transport of solute is termed Taylor dispersion. The dispersion of active suspensions is qualitatively distinct: viscous and external torques can establish…

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Shear thinning in dense non-Brownian suspensions is often attributed to shear-induced microstructural evolution, including changes in alignment, anisotropy, and near-contact statistics, yet how these changes influence particle-scale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-28 Rishabh V. More

Swimming microorganisms can influence the diffusion of passive particles. The effect of this swimmer-particle interaction depends on different properties, such as the hydrodynamic field of the swimmer and the relative sizes of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-08 Florian von Rüling , Francine Kolley , Alexey Eremin

We study the shear-induced behavior of chiral (circle-swimming) and nonchiral swimmers in a planar channel subjected to Poiseuille (pressure-driven) flow. The swimmers are modeled as active Brownian spheroids, self-propelling with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-17 Mohammad Reza Shabanniya , Amir Abbasi , Arghavan Partovifard , Ali Naji

Using Stokesian dynamics simulations, we examine the flow of a monodisperse, neutrally buoyant, homogeneous suspension of non-Brownian solid spheres in simple shear, starting from a large number of independent hard-sphere distributions and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 M. Marchioro , A. Acrivos

The hydrodynamic interaction of two deformable vesicles in shear flow induces a net displacement, in most cases an increase of their distance in the transverse direction. The statistical average of these interactions leads to shear-induced…

We study the dynamics of the phase behavior of a polymer blend in the presence of shear flow. By adopting a two fluid picture and using a generalization of the concept of material derivative, we construct kinetic equations that describe the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Tao Sun , Anna C. Balazs , David Jasnow

Immiscible contaminants are commonly involved in naturally occurring suspensions. The resulting variations of their flow behavior has rarely been evaluated. Here, we investigate the variation of the viscosity of the oil-based two-phase…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-14 Yuan Lin , Peiwen Lin , Ying Wang , Jiawang Chen , Zhiguo He , Thomas Pähtz , Nhan Phan-Thien

In this article, I study the shear thickening of suspensions of frictional dimers by the mean of numerical simulations. I report the evolution of the main parameters of shear thickening, such as the jamming volume fractions in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-06 Romain Mari

The study of active matter system has critical importance in revealing the physical essence of biological collective behavior. Dense bacterial suspension - a typical biological active matter, exhibits a wide range of phenomenons, among…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-04 Hongyi Bian , Chunhe Li , Zixiang Lin , Jin Zhu , Weijie Chen , Gaojin Li , Yongxiang Huang , Zijie Qu

Microswimmers in suspension exhibit collective swimming behaviour, forming various self-organised structures including ordered, aggregated, and turbulent-like structures. When mixed with passive particles phase-separation is known to occur,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-26 Alexander Chamolly , Takuji Ishikawa

We show theoretically that an imposed uniaxial anisotropy leads to new universality classes for the dynamics of active particles suspended in a viscous fluid. In the homogeneous state, their concentration relaxes superdiffusively, stirred…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi , Suvendra K. Sahoo , K. Vijay Kumar , Sriram Ramaswamy

We extend the conventional mode-coupling theory of supercooled liquids to systems under stationary shear flow. Starting from generalized fluctuating hydrodynamics, a nonlinear equation for the intermediate scattering function is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kunimasa Miyazaki , David R. Reichman

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of the number density fluctuations of a dilute suspension of active particles in a linear viscoelastic fluid. We propose a model for the frequency-dependent diffusion coefficient of the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-08 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Rosalio F. Rodriguez , Elizabeth Salinas-Rodriguez

Nonlinearities in constitutive equations of extended objects in shear flow lead to novel phenomena, {\it e.g.} "rheochaos" in solutions of wormlike micelles and "elastic turbulence" in polymer solutions. Since both phenomena involve…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-20 Rituparno Mandal , Buddhapriya Chakrabarti , Debarshini Chakraborti , Chandan Dasgupta

Active (i.e., self-propelled or swimming) particles moving through an isotropic fluid exhibit conventional diffusive behavior. We report anomalous diffusion of an active particle moving in an anisotropic, nematic background. Whilst the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 John Toner , Hartmut Löwen , Henricus H. Wensink

We consider active suspensions in the isotropic phase subjected to a shear flow. Using a set of extended hydrodynamic equations we derive a variety of {\em analytical} expressions for rheological quantities such as shear viscosity and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Sebastian Heidenreich , Siegfried Hess , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Various aspects of self-motility of chemically active colloids in Newtonian fluids can be captured by simple models for their chemical activity plus a phoretic slip hydrodynamic boundary condition on their surface. For particles of simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-09 M. N. Popescu , W. E. Uspal , Z. Eskandari , M. Tasinkevych , S. Dietrich

Shear thickening is a type of non-Newtonian behavior in which the stress required to shear a fluid increases faster than linearly with shear rate. Many concentrated suspensions of particles exhibit an especially dramatic version, known as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Eric Brown , Heinrich M. Jaeger

The dynamics of a two dimensional autophoretic disk is quantified as a minimal model for the chaotic trajectories undertaken by active droplets. Via direct numerical simulations, we show that the mean-square displacement of the disk in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 R. Kailasham , Aditya S. Khair