A wide range of experimental systems including gliding, swarming and swimming bacteria,
in vitro motility assays, and shaken granular media are commonly described as self …

Emergent behavior in collectives of “robotic” units with limited capabilities that is robust and
programmable is a promising route to perform tasks on the micro and nanoscale that are …

We propose a general formalism to characterize orientational frustration of smectic liquid
crystals in confinement by interpreting the emerging networks of grain boundaries as objects …

Confined samples of liquid crystals are characterized by a variety of topological defects and
can be exposed to external constraints such as extreme confinements with nontrivial …

While the collective dynamics of spherical active Brownian particles is relatively well
understood by now, the much more complex dynamics of nonspherical active particles still …

We study the interplay of steric and hydrodynamic interactions in suspensions of elongated
microswimmers by simulating the full hydrodynamics of squirmer rods in the quasi two …

Microswimmers or active elements, such as bacteria and active filaments, have an
elongated shape, which determines their individual and collective dynamics. There is still a …

We study numerically the phase behavior of self-propelled elliptical particles interacting
through the “hard” repulsive Gay-Berne potential at infinite Péclet number. Changing a …

Simulations of flow fields around microscopic objects typically require methods that both
solve the Navier–Stokes equations and also include thermal fluctuations. One such method …

Standard molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations deal with spherical
particles. Extending the standard simulation methodologies to the nonspherical objects is …