Lattice Boltzmann methods and active fluids

LN Carenza, G Gonnella, A Lamura, G Negro… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
We review the state of the art of active fluids with particular attention to hydrodynamic
continuous models and to the use of Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM) in this field. We …

Phase separation in binary mixtures of active and passive particles

P Dolai, A Simha, S Mishra - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We study binary mixtures of small active and big passive athermal particles interacting via
soft repulsive forces on a frictional substrate. Athermal self propelled particles are known to …

Motility-induced phase separation and coarsening in active matter

G Gonnella, D Marenduzzo… - Comptes …, 2015 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Active systems are self-driven systems that live, or function, far from thermodynamic
equilibrium. A paradigmatic example is provided by a suspension of interacting self-motile …

Effective temperatures in inhomogeneous passive and active bidimensional Brownian particle systems

I Petrelli, LF Cugliandolo, G Gonnella, A Suma - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We study the stationary dynamics of an active interacting Brownian particle system. We
measure the violations of the fluctuation dissipation theorem, and the corresponding …

Large fluctuations and dynamic phase transition in a system of self-propelled particles

F Cagnetta, F Corberi, G Gonnella, A Suma - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We study the statistics, in stationary conditions, of the work W τ done by the active force in
different systems of self-propelled particles in a time τ. We show the existence of a critical …

Motility-induced phase separation in an active dumbbell fluid

A Suma, G Gonnella, D Marenduzzo… - Europhysics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We study a suspension of active dumbbells of variable density, as a minimal example of an
active polar fluid. As in a fluid of spherical swimmers, we find that motility triggers a …

Effect of polydispersity on the dynamics of active Brownian particles

S Kumar, JP Singh, D Giri, S Mishra - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We numerically study the dynamics and the phases of self-propelled disk-shaped particles
of different sizes with soft repulsive potential in two dimensions. Size diversity is introduced …

Phase coexistence in two-dimensional passive and active dumbbell systems

LF Cugliandolo, P Digregorio, G Gonnella, A Suma - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We demonstrate that there is a macroscopic coexistence between regions with hexatic order
and regions in the liquid or gas phase over a finite interval of packing fractions in active …

Many-body dynamics of chemically propelled nanomotors

PH Colberg, R Kapral - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The collective behavior of chemically propelled sphere-dimer motors made from linked
catalytic and noncatalytic spheres in a quasi-two-dimensional confined geometry is studied …

[HTML][HTML] Designing, synthesizing, and modeling active fluids

I Essafri, B Ghosh, C Desgranges, J Delhommelle - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We review recent advances in the design, synthesis, and modeling of active fluids. Active
fluids have been at the center of many technological innovations and theoretical advances …