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Active suspensions and their nonlinear models

Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Active suspensions, such as suspensions of self-propelled microorganisms and related synthetic microswimmers, are known to undergo complex dynamics and pattern formation as a result of hydrodynamic interactions. In this review, we summarize recent efforts to model these systems using continuum kinetic theories. We first derive a basic kinetic model for a suspension of self-propelled rodlike particles and discuss its stability and nonlinear dynamics. We then present extensions of this model to analyze the effective rheology of active suspensions in external flows, the effect of steric interactions in concentrated systems, and the dynamics of chemotactically responsive suspensions in chemical fields.
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2013.04.001
Language: English
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, École Normale Supérieure, Imperial College London, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University, Division of Materials Research
Awards: G1813080892, G222768804, ANALYTICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, G4504181119, NYU MRSEC: Semantophoretic Assemblies, G5743579803, CPS Small: Control of Surgical Robots: Network Layer to Tissue Contact, APPLIED ANALYSIS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS
OpenAlex ID: W2069429457
FWCI: 11.18
Cites: 153
Cited by: 274
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