Dynamics of flexible fibers in viscous flows and fluids

O Du Roure, A Lindner, EN Nazockdast… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The dynamics and deformations of immersed flexible fibers are at the heart of important
industrial and biological processes, induce peculiar mechanical and transport properties in …

A review of computational modeling of fluid-immersed flexible filaments

Divyaprakash, M Garg, A Kumar… - Journal of the Indian …, 2024 - Springer
Hydrodynamics of slender flexible filaments plays an important role in biology, human
physiology, locomotion of organisms, as well as biomedical devices. It is, therefore …

Flexible filaments buckle into helicoidal shapes in strong compressional flows

B Chakrabarti, Y Liu, J LaGrone, R Cortez, L Fauci… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The occurrence of coiled or helical morphologies is common in nature, from plant roots to
DNA packaging into viral capsids, as well as in applications such as oil drilling processes. In …

Chirality-induced bacterial rheotaxis in bulk shear flows

G **g, A Zöttl, É Clément, A Lindner - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Interaction of swimming bacteria with flows controls their ability to explore complex
environments, crucial to many societal and environmental challenges and relevant for …

Universal features of the shape of elastic fibres in shear flow

PJ Żuk, AM Słowicka, ML Ekiel-Jeżewska… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We present a numerical study of the dynamics of an elastic fibre in a shear flow at low
Reynolds number, and seek to understand several aspects of the fibre's motion using the …

Shear-induced migration of confined flexible fibers

N Xue, JK Nunes, HA Stone - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report an experimental study of the shear-induced migration of flexible fibers in
suspensions confined between two parallel plates. Non-Brownian fiber suspensions are …

Spectral analysis for elastica dynamics in a shear flow

L Liu, P Sznajder, ML Ekiel-Jeżewska - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
We present the spectral analysis of three-dimensional dynamics of an elastic filament in a
shear flow of a viscous fluid at a low Reynolds number in the absence of Brownian motion …

Immersed buoyant viscoplastic injections

S Akbari, SM Taghavi - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the injection of a viscoplastic (yield stress) fluid into a quiescent Newtonian
medium is experimentally investigated, using a range of experimental methods, including …

Nanofibril alignment during assembly revealed by an X-ray scattering-based digital twin

VK Gowda, T Rosén, SV Roth, LD Soderberg… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The nanostructure, primarily particle orientation, controls mechanical and functional (eg,
mouthfeel, cell compatibility, optical, morphing) properties when macroscopic materials are …

Buckling, crumpling, and tumbling of semiflexible sheets in simple shear flow

KS Silmore, MS Strano, JW Swan - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As 2D materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and 2D polymers
become more prevalent, solution processing and colloidal-state properties are being …