Active polymers—Emergent conformational and dynamical properties: A brief review

RG Winkler, J Elgeti, G Gompper - Journal of the Physical Society of …, 2017 - journals.jps.jp
Active matter exhibits a wealth of emerging nonequilibrium behaviours. A paradigmatic
example is the interior of cells, where active components, such as the cytoskeleton, are …

A computational model for structural dynamics and reconfiguration of DNA assemblies

JY Lee, H Koh, DN Kim - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in constructing a structured DNA assembly whose configuration can be
dynamically changed in response to external stimuli have demanded the development of an …

Hydrodynamics of suspensions of passive and active rigid particles: a rigid multiblob approach

F Balboa Usabiaga, B Kallemov, B Delmotte… - … in Applied Mathematics …, 2017 - msp.org
We develop a rigid multiblob method for numerically solving the mobility problem for
suspensions of passive and active rigid particles of complex shape in Stokes flow in …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid sampling of stochastic displacements in Brownian dynamics simulations

AM Fiore, F Balboa Usabiaga, A Donev… - The Journal of chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new method for sampling stochastic displacements in Brownian Dynamics
(BD) simulations of colloidal scale particles. The method relies on a new formulation for …

Aligned colloidal clusters in an alternating rotating magnetic field elucidated by magnetic relaxation

A Spatafora-Salazar, DM Lobmeyer… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Precise control at the colloidal scale is one of the most promising bottom–up approaches to
fabricating new materials and devices with tunable and precisely engineered properties …

[HTML][HTML] Brownian dynamics of confined rigid bodies

S Delong, F Balboa Usabiaga, A Donev - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce numerical methods for simulating the diffusive motion of rigid bodies of
arbitrary shape immersed in a viscous fluid. We parameterize the orientation of the bodies …

An immersed boundary method for rigid bodies

B Kallemov, A Bhalla, B Griffith, A Donev - Communications in Applied …, 2016 - msp.org
We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving
rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes …

Polar state reversal in active fluids

B Zhang, H Yuan, A Sokolov, MO de la Cruz… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Spontaneous emergence of correlated states such as flocks and vortices is a prime example
of collective dynamics and self-organization observed in active matter,,,,–. In geometrically …

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 …

Rotne–Prager–Yamakawa approximation for different-sized particles in application to macromolecular bead models

PJ Zuk, E Wajnryb, KA Mizerski… - Journal of Fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
The Rotne–Prager–Yamakawa (RPY) approximation is a commonly used approach to
model the hydrodynamic interactions between small spherical particles suspended in a …