The equations of hydrodynamics including mass, linear momentum, angular momentum, and energy are derived by coarse-graining the microscopic equations of motion for systems consisting of rotary dumbbells driven by internal torques.
We study a novel phase of active polar fluids, which is characterized by the continuous creation and destruction of dense clusters due to self-sustained turbulence. This state arises due to the interplay of the self-advection of the aligned swimmers
and their defect topology. The typical cluster size is determined by the characteristic vortex size. Our results are obtained by investigating a continuum model of compressible polar active fluids, which incorporates typical experimental observations in bacterial suspensions by assuming a non-monotone dependence of speed on density.
Thermally fluctuating sheets and ribbons provide an intriguing forum in which to investigate strong violations of Hookes Law: large distance elastic parameters are in fact not constant, but instead depend on the macroscopic dimensions. Inspired by re
cent experiments on free-standing graphene cantilevers, we combine the statistical mechanics of thin elastic plates and large-scale numerical simulations to investigate the thermal renormalization of the bending rigidity of graphene ribbons clamped at one end. For ribbons of dimensions $Wtimes L$ (with $Lgeq W$), the macroscopic bending rigidity $kappa_R$ determined from cantilever deformations is independent of the width when $W<ell_textrm{th}$, where $ell_textrm{th}$ is a thermal length scale, as expected. When $W>ell_textrm{th}$, however, this thermally renormalized bending rigidity begins to systematically increase, in agreement with the scaling theory, although in our simulations we were not quite able to reach the system sizes necessary to determine the fully developed power law dependence on $W$. When the ribbon length $L > ell_p$, where $ell_p$ is the $W$-dependent thermally renormalized ribbon persistence length, we observe a scaling collapse and the beginnings of large scale random walk behavior.
We propose a lattice model for RNA based on a self-interacting two-tolerant trail. Self-avoidance and elements of tertiary structure are taken into account. We investigate a simple version of the model in which the native state of RNA consists of jus
t one hairpin. Using exact arguments and Monte Carlo simulations we determine the phase diagram for this case. We show that the denaturation transition is first order and can either occur directly or through an intermediate molten phase.
We study universal behavior in the moving phase of a generic system of motile particles with alignment interactions in the incompressible limit for spatial dimensions $d>2$. Using a dynamical renormalization group analysis, we obtain the exact dynami
c, roughness, and anisotropy exponents that describe the scaling behavior of such incompressible systems. This is the first time a compelling argument has been given for the exact values of the anomalous scaling exponents of a flock moving through an isotropic medium in $d>2$.
We describe a simple meanfield variational approach to study a number of properties of intrinsically stiff chains which are appropriate models for a large class of biopolymers. We present the calculation of the distribution of end-to-end distance and
the elastic response of stiff chains under tension using this approach. In the former example we find that the simple expression almost quantitatively fits the results of computer simulation. For the case of the stiff chain under tension we recover analytically all the known limits. We obtain quantitative agreement with recent experiments on the stretching of DNA. The limitations of our approach are also discussed.
Katherine Klymko
,Dibyendu Mandal
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(2017)
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"Statistical mechanics of transport processes in active fluids: Equations of hydrodynamics"
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Katherine Klymko
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