[HTML][HTML] Microscopic swarms: From active matter physics to biomedical and environmental applications

Y Fu, H Yu, X Zhang, P Malgaretti, V Kishore, W Wang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microscopic swarms consisting of, eg, active colloidal particles or microorganisms, display
emergent behaviors not seen in equilibrium systems. They represent an emerging field of …

Culinary fluid mechanics and other currents in food science

AJTM Mathijssen, M Lisicki, VN Prakash… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Innovations in fluid mechanics have been leading to better food since ancient history, while
creativity in cooking has inspired fundamental breakthroughs in science. This review …

On-demand breaking of action-reaction reciprocity between magnetic microdisks using global stimuli

G Gardi, M Sitti - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Coupled physical interactions induce emergent collective behaviors of many interacting
objects. Nonreciprocity in the interactions generates unexpected behaviors. There is a lack …

Order and information in the patterns of spinning magnetic micro-disks at the air-water interface

W Wang, G Gardi, P Malgaretti, V Kishore, L Koens… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The application of the Shannon entropy to study the relationship between information and
structures has yielded insights into molecular and material systems. However, the difficulty in …

Method of regularized stokeslets: Flow analysis and improvement of convergence

B Zhao, E Lauga, L Koens - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
Since their development in 2001, regularized stokeslets have become a popular numerical
tool for low-Reynolds-number flows since the replacement of a point force by a smoothed …

Geometric phase methods with Stokes theorem for a general viscous swimmer

L Koens, E Lauga - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
The geometric phase techniques for swimming in viscous flows express the net
displacement of a swimmer as a path integral of a field in configuration space. This …

The slow viscous flow around a general rectangular doubly-periodic arrays of infinite slender cylinders

L Koens, R Vernekar, T Krüger… - IMA Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The slow viscous flow through a doubly-periodic array of cylinders does not have an
analytical solution. However, as a reduced model for the flow within fibrous porous media …

The slow viscous flow around doubly-periodic arrays of infinite slender cylinders

L Koens, R Vernekar, T Krueger, M Lisicki… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The slow viscous flow through a doubly-periodic array of cylinders does not have an
analytical solution. However, as a reduced model for the flow within fibrous porous media …

Bernoulli-equation-based robotic model for non-contact magnetic micromanipulation

J Sürer, AF Tabak - Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 2021 - dergipark.org.tr
Micromanipulation is an important part of biomedical micro-robotic applications. The lab-on-
a-chip applications with live cells and require delicate handling of samples to not …