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Coherent vortical motion has been reported in a wide variety of populations including living organisms (bacteria, fishes, human crowds) and synthetic active matter (shaken grains, mixtures of biopolymers), yet a unified description of the…

Optical tweezers have become a powerful tool for measuring parameters of microscale and nanoscale local environments. Motion of particles within optical tweezer traps established itself as a probe for local viscosity, temperature as well as…

We investigate bubble dynamics in a holographic superfluid undergoing a first-order phase transition with spontaneous $U(1)$ symmetry breaking. Near the nucleation threshold, the system exhibits universal critical behavior governed by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhen-han Jin , Yu-ping An , Li Li

A statistical description of heavy particles suspended in incompressible rough self-similar flows is developed. It is shown that, differently from smooth flows, particles do not form fractal clusters. They rather distribute inhomogeneously…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bec , M. Cencini , R. Hillerbrand

Here we report experiments on particle cluster settling at high Reynolds number in quiescent fluid contained in a vessel. The particles were observed to settle in a near-circular shape irrespective of the shape of the vessel cross-section…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-09 Sayan Pal , Amol A. Kulkarni

We study numerically the hydrodynamics of a self-propelled particle system, consisting of spherical squirmers sedimented on a flat surface. We observe the emergence of dynamic structures, due to the interplay of particle-particle and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-20 Zaiyi Shen , Juho S. Lintuvuori

Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

The motion of flexible fibers through structured fluidic environments is ubiquitous in nature and industrial applications. Most often, their dynamics results from the complex interplay between internal elastic stresses, contact forces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-23 Ursy Makanga , Mohammadreza Sepahi , Camille Duprat , Blaise Delmotte

The motion of incompressible and ideal fluids is studied in the plane. The stability in $L^1$ of circular vortex patches is established among the class of all bounded vortex patches of equal strength without any restriction on the size of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-24 Thomas C. Sideris , Luis Vega

Understanding the organization of collective motion in biological systems is an ongoing challenge. In this Paper we consider a minimal model of self-propelled particles with variable speed. Inspired by experimental data from schooling fish,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shradha Mishra , Kolbjørn Tunstrøm , Iain D. Couzin , Cristián Huepe

A drop bouncing on a vertically-vibrated surface may self-propel forward by standing waves and travels along a fluid interface. This system called walking drop forms a non-quantum wave-particle association at the macroscopic scale. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-25 Adrien Hélias , Matthieu Labousse

We study the spontaneous motion, binary collisions, and collective dynamics of "polar disks", i.e. purpose-built particles which, when vibrated between two horizontal plates, move coherently along a direction strongly correlated to their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-19 Julien Deseigne , Sébastien Léonard , Olivier Dauchot , Hugues Chaté

We simulate by lattice Boltzmann the nonequilibrium steady states of run-and-tumble particles (inspired by a minimal model of bacteria), interacting by far-field hydrodynamics, subject to confinement. Under gravity, hydrodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-01 R. W. Nash , R. Adhikari , J. Tailleur , M. E. Cates

We numerically examine the dynamics of a probe particle driven at a constant force through an assembly of particles with competing long-range repulsion and short-range attraction that forms a bubble or stripe state. In the bubble regime, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Molecular dynamics studies of nono-sized rigid grains, droplets and bubbles in nano-sized pores indicate that the drag force may have a hydrodynamic form if the moving object is dense and small compared to the pore diameter. Otherwise, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nazar Sushko , Marek Cieplak

A single colloidal sphere circulating around a periodically modulated optical vortex trap can enter a dynamical state in which it intermittently alternates between freely running around the ring-like optical vortex and becoming trapped in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sang-Hyuk Lee , David G. Grier

The way particles interact with turbulent structures, particularly in regions of high vorticity and strain rate, has been investigated in simulations of homogeneous turbulence and in simple flows which have a periodic or persistent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-28 Michael W. Reeks

A mechanism of formation of small-scale inhomogeneities in spatial distributions of aerosols and droplets associated with clustering instability in the atmospheric turbulent flow is discussed. The particle clustering is a consequence of a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , M. A. Liberman , V. L'vov , I. Rogachevskii

This study aims to research on dynamics of two quantized vortices in miscible two-component Bose--Einstein condensates, trapped by a circular box potential by using the Gross--Pitaevskii equation. We consider a situation in which two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-26 Junsik Han , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

The analysis performed as well as extensive numerical simulations have revealed the possibility of the generation of homoclinic orbits as a result of homoclinic bifurcation in a porous pellet. A method has been proposed for the development…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Andrzej Burghardt , Marek Berezowski