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Spontaneous growth of long-wavelength deformations is a defining feature of active fluids with orientational order. We investigate the effect of biaxial rectangular confinement on the instability of initially shear-aligned 3D isotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-04 Pooja Chandrakar , Minu Varghese , S. Ali Aghvami , Aparna Baskaran , Zvonimir Dogic , Guillaume Duclos

We use linear stability analysis and hybrid lattice Boltzmann simulations to study the dynamical behaviour of an active nematic confined in a channel made of viscoelastic material. We find that the quiescent, ordered active nematic is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-20 Francesco Mori , Saraswat Bhattacharyya , Julia M. Yeomans , Sumesh P. Thampi

The translation and shape deformations of a passive viscous Newtonian droplet immersed in an active nematic liquid crystal under circular confinement are analyzed using a linear stability analysis. We focus on the case of a sharply aligned…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Tanumoy Dhar , Michael J. Shelley , David Saintillan

Ionic fluids under conductive confinement are central to technologies such as batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells. Their interfacial behavior governs energy storage and electrochemical processes. Despite their importance, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-02 Philipp Stärk , Alexander Schlaich

Ionic liquids constrained at interfaces or restricted in subnanometric pores are increasingly employed in modern technologies, including energy applications. Understanding the details of their behavior in these conditions is therefore…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-25 Stefano Mossa

The location of the Frenkel line (FL) of a Lennard-Jones fluid which demarcates two distinct physical states, liquidlike and gaslike within the supercritical regime, has been established through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-29 Kanka Ghosh , C. V. Krishnamurthy

Two dimensional active fluids display a transition from turbulent to coherent flow upon decreasing the size of the confining geometry. A recent experiment suggests that the behavior in three dimensions is remarkably different; emergent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-17 Minu Varghese , Arvind Baskaran , Michael Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We consider a two-dimensional athermal binary mixture of Lennard-Jones particles with persistent random active forces. The liquid phase of this system for active forces exceeding a threshold value exhibits self-organization with long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Atharva Shukla , Chandan Dasgupta

We review recent experimental, numerical, and analytical results on active suspensions of self-propelled colloidal beads moving in (quasi) two dimensions. Active colloids form part of the larger theme of active matter, which is noted for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-03 Julian Bialké , Thomas Speck , Hartmut Löwen

We simulate the dynamics of phase assembly in binary immiscible fluids and ternary microemulsions using a three-dimensional hydrodynamic lattice gas approach. For critical spinodal decomposition we perform the scaling analysis in reduced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter J. Love , Peter V. Coveney , Bruce M. Boghosian

We study the flocking model introduced by Vicsek in the "coarsening" regime. At standard self-propulsion speeds, we find two distinct growth laws for the coupled density and velocity fields. The characteristic length scale of the density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-10 Nisha Katyal , Supravat Dey , Dibyendu Das , Sanjay Puri

Chemically active Janus particles generate tangential concentration gradients along their surface for self-propulsion. Although this is well studied in unbounded domains, the analysis in biologically relevant environments such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-29 Akash Choudhary , K. V. S. Chaithanya , Sébastien Michelin , S. Pushpavanam

We explore phase separation and kinetic arrest in a model active colloidal system consisting of self-propelled, hard-core particles with nonconvex shapes. The passive limit of the model, namely cross-shaped particles on a square lattice,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-11 Carl Merrigan , Kabir Ramola , Rakesh Chatterjee , Nimrod Segall , Yair Shokef , Bulbul Chakraborty

Biomembranes, which are mainly composed of neutral and charged lipids, exhibit a large variety of functional structures and dynamics. Here, we report a coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of the phase separation and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-07 Hiroaki Ito , Yuji Higuchi , Naofumi Shimokawa

The investigation of collective behaviour in dense assemblies of self-propelled active particles has been motivated by a wide range of biological phenomena. Of particular interest are dynamical transitions of cellular and sub-cellular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-05 Yagyik Goswami , G. V. Shivashankar , Srikanth Sastry

Using agent-based simulations of self-propelled particles subject to short-range repulsion and nematic alignment we explore the dynamical phases of a dense active material confined to the surface of a sphere. We map the dynamical phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-25 Silke Henkes , M. Cristina Marchetti , Rastko Sknepnek

We study the dynamics of domain formation and coarsening in a binary Bose-Einstein condensate that is quenched across a miscible-immiscible phase transition. The late-time evolution of the system is universal and governed by scaling laws…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-02 Johannes Hofmann , Stefan S. Natu , S. Das Sarma

We study the liquid-gas phase separation observed in a system of repulsive particles dressed with ferromagnetically aligning spins, a so-called `spin fluid'. Microcanonical ensemble numerical simulations of finite-size systems reveal that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Mathias Casiulis , Marco Tarzia , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Olivier Dauchot

We use molecular dynamics (MD) to simulate an unstable homogeneous mixture of binary fluids (AB), confined in a slit pore of width $D$. The pore walls are assumed to be flat and structureless, and attract one component of the mixture (A)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 S. K. Das , S. Puri Jawaharlal , J. Horbach , Kurt Binder

We present a computer simulation study of a (6,12)-Lennard-Jones fluid confined to a slit pore, formed by two uniform planes. These interact via (3,9)-Lennard-Jones potential with the fluid particles. When the fluid approaches the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-20 N. Gribova , H. Maleki , A. Arnold , C. Holm , T. Schilling