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We have considered a variation of the Vicsek model with vectorial noise where each one of the agents have their own noise amplitude normally distributed around a mean value, $\mu$, with standard deviation $\sigma$. First-order phase…

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The motion of tiny heavy particles transported in a co-rotating vortex pair, with or without particle inertia and sedimentation, is investigated. The dynamics of non-inertial sedimenting particles is shown to be chaotic, under the combined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean-Regis Angilella

Simulations of a rotationally stirred condensate show that a regime of simple behaviour occurs in which a single vortex cycles in and out of the condensate. We present a simple quantitative model of this behaviour, which accurately…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Caradoc-Davies , R. J. Ballagh , K. Burnett

This study employs an improved volume of fluid method and adaptive mesh refinement algorithm to numerically investigate the internal jet-like mixing upon the coalescence of two initially stationary droplets of unequal sizes. The emergence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-06 Xi Xia , Chengming He , Dehai Yu , Jiaquan Zhao , Peng Zhang

Interactions in active matter systems inherently involve delays due to information processing and actuation lags. We numerically investigate the impact of such delays on the phase behavior of the Vicsek model for motile active matter at a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-08 Robert Horton , Viktor Holubec

Using exact diagonalization, we investigate the many-body ground state for vortex patterns in a rotating Bose-condensed gas of $N$ spinless particles, confined in a quasi-two-dimensional harmonic trap and interacting repulsively via…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-02 Mohd. Imran , M. A. H. Ahsan

We present a general theory for noise-induced corrections to the angular velocity of spiral waves. Stochasticity produces two second-order effects: an instantaneous term from heterogeneity that always slows rotation, and an orbital-drift…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-09 Jolien Kamphuis , Desmond Kabus , Hermen Jan Hupkes , Tim De Coster

Ice crystals settling through a turbulent cloud are rotated by turbulent velocity gradients. In the same way, turbulence affects the orientation of aggregates of organic matter settling in the ocean. In fact most solid particles encountered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-04 K. Gustavsson , M. Z. Sheikh , D. Lopez , A. Naso , A. Pumir , B. Mehlig

We study the behaviour of interacting self-propelled particles, whose self-propulsion speed decreases with their local density. By combining direct simulations of the microscopic model with an analysis of the hydrodynamic equations obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-25 F. D. C. Farrell , J. Tailleur , D. Marenduzzo , M. C. Marchetti

In the present paper which is a sequel to [N.B. Volkov and A.M. Iskoldsky The dynamics of vortex structures and states of current: 1;[1]], the dynamics of non-equilibrium phase transitions and states of current in electrophysical systems…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 N. B. Volkov , A. M. Iskoldsky

When a drop falls from a moderate height into a shallow fluid pool whose depth is of the order of the drop-radius two pairs of vortex rings are generated. The inner pair forms at the edge of the crater created by the impacting drop while…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-06 Andreas Wilkens , David Auerbach , GertJan van Heijst

The motion of several plates in an inviscid and incompressible fluid is studied numerically using a vortex sheet model. Two to four plates are initially placed in-line, separated by a specified distance, and actuated in the vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Monika Nitsche , Anand U. Oza , Michael Siegel

A symmetric anti-parallel quantum pair of vortices is simulated using the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevski equations. The initial development before cores interact directly demonstrates the traditional vortex dynamics of stretching,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-22 Robert M. Kerr

Active hydrodynamic theories are a powerful tool to study the emergent ordered phases of internally driven particles such as bird flocks, bacterial suspension and their artificial analogues. While theories of orientationally ordered phases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Ananyo Maitra , Martin Lenz

The effect of compressibility in hydrodynamic vortex merging has been discussed. In the past, in incompressible limit it has been observed that the merging of a collection of intense point-like vortices arranged uniformly outside a circular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-01 Rupak Mukherjee , Akanksha Gupta , Rajaraman Ganesh

We show that even weak nonreciprocal alignment leads to large-scale structure formation in flocking mixtures. By combining numerical simulations of a binary Vicsek model and the analysis of coarse-grained continuum equations, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-16 Charlotte Myin , Benoît Mahault

We study theoretically dynamical phases of vortices in superconducting films with arrays of obstacles. By performing a series of molecular dynamics simulations and analytical calculations, we demonstrate the existence of a phase of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-11 Rogério M. da Silva , Clécio C. de Souza Silva

One of the main questions in planet formation theory is how to cross the metre-scale barrier. In this two-part series, we assess the merits of vortex-based theories by investigating the effect of backreacting dust on vortices. Specifically,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Nathan Magnan , Henrik Nils Latter

We investigate the stability of self-propelled particle flocks in the Taylor-Green vortex, a steady vortical flow. We consider a model where particles align themselves to a combination of the orientation and the acceleration of particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Andrew W. Baggaley

We study a model for the collective behavior of self-propelled particles subject to pairwise copying interactions and noise. Particles move at a constant speed $v$ on a two--dimensional space and, in a single step of the dynamics, each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-15 Ernesto S. Loscar , Gabriel Baglietto , Federico Vazquez