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arXiv 0811.3432cond-mat.soft
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主动向列体中的自发流动态:统一的图象

Spontaneous flow states in active nematics: a unified picture

S. A. Edwards, J. M. Yeomans

摘要:

活性液晶的连续流体动力学模型已被用来描述动态自组织系统,如细菌群和细胞骨架凝胶。这种模型的一个关键预测是存在的自稳定扭结状态,自发地产生准一维通道中的流体流动。使用简单的稳定性参数和数值计算,我们扩展了以前的研究,给出了一个完整的表征的相空间的收缩和伸展的颗粒(即拉和推)移动在一个狭窄的通道作为其流动对齐性能和初始取向的函数。这给出了一个框架,统一的文献中的许多结果。我们描述的扭结状态施加剪切的响应,并调查如何允许系统的极性修改其动力学行为。

英文摘要:

Continuum hydrodynamic models of active liquid crystals have been used to describe dynamic self-organising systems such as bacterial swarms and cytoskeletal gels. A key prediction of such models is the existence of self-stabilising kink states that spontaneously generate fluid flow in quasi-one dimensional channels. Using simple stability arguments and numerical calculations we extend previous studies to give a complete characterisation of the phase space for both contractile and extensile particles (ie pullers and pushers) moving in a narrow channel as a function of their flow alignment properties and initial orientation. This gives a framework for unifying many of the results in the literature. We describe the response of the kink states to an imposed shear, and investigate how allowing the system to be polar modifies its dynamical behaviour.

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