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It is stated in the main in essence new approach to mechanics of the stressed state of the solid body from statistically isotropic material and the homogeneous liquid dynamics. The approach essence is in the detected property of the…
We introduce a class of lattice gas models of active matter systems whose hydrodynamic description can be derived exactly. We illustrate our approach by considering two systems exhibiting two of the most studied collective behaviours in…
We use numerical simulations to compute the equation of state of a suspension of spherical, self-propelled nanoparticles. We study in detail the effect of excluded volume interactions and confinement as a function of the system temperature,…
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