Biphasic, Lyotropic, Active Nematics
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 113:24 (2014) 248303
Active nematic materials with substrate friction.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 90:6 (2014) 062307
Abstract:
Active turbulence in dense active systems is characterized by high vorticity on a length scale that is large compared to that of individual entities. We describe the properties of active turbulence as momentum propagation is screened by frictional damping. As friction is increased, the spacing between the walls in the nematic director field decreases as a consequence of the more rapid velocity decays. This leads to, first, a regime with more walls and an increased number of topological defects, and then to a jammed state in which the walls deliminate bands of opposing flow, analogous to the shear bands observed in passive complex fluids.Active nematic materials with substrate friction
Physical Review E American Physical Society (APS) 90:6 (2014) 062307
Vorticity, defects and correlations in active turbulence
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences The Royal Society 372:2029 (2014) 20130366
Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of droplet evaporation
Soft Matter Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 10:41 (2014) 8267-8275