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集群活性物质与流动的相互作用:对拉格朗日相干结构的影响

Interaction between swarming active matter and flow: the impact on Lagrangian coherent structures

Xinyu Si, Lei Fang

AI总结:

该研究通过卤虫与准二维流动的实验,探究集群活性物质对拉格朗日相干结构的影响,发现其扰动作用强于同能量随机噪声,且低数量密度下即可明显改变结构,为活性物质与流动相互作用研究提供新见解。

摘要:

近年来,与活性物质相关的研究课题吸引了多个领域学界的兴趣。已有研究指出,以浮游动物为代表的活性物质凭借其内在运动能力和庞大的生物量,在海洋混合方面具备潜在作用。然而,尽管自然界中普遍存在由多种来源驱动的流动,此前的研究大多忽略了外部背景流动的影响,活性物质与外部流动结构之间的相互作用长期以来未被重视。本文中,我们以典型的厘米级游动生物卤虫(A. salina)和电磁驱动的准二维流动为实验对象,研究活性物质与流动的相互作用。我们重点关注集群活性物质对双曲型拉格朗日相干结构(LCSs,即流动中应变最强的区域)的影响。研究表明,与能量输入相近的局部随机噪声相比,活性物质对LCSs的影响要显著得多。此外,我们发现活性物质产生的扰动可与背景流动耦合,进一步使LCSs发生形变。我们还揭示出流动中的旋转椭圆区域更容易受到活性物质扰动的影响。我们进一步阐释了活性物质的影响如何随其数量密度和背景流动强度变化,发现即使活性物质的数量密度很低,LCSs也会发生明显改变。本研究旨在提供有价值的见解,并唤起学界对活性物质与外部流动结构相互作用这一问题的关注。

英文摘要:

In recent years, research topics concerning active matter have attracted interest from diverse communities. It has been suggested that active matter-as represented by zooplankton-has potential in ocean mixing due to its intrinsic mobility and the sheer amount of biomass. However, prior investigations have predominantly overlooked the influence of external background flow, despite the ubiquity of flow driven by various sources in nature. The interaction between active matter and external flow structures has long been neglected. Here, we conducted experiments using a typical centimeter swimmer, \textit{A. salina}, and an electromagnetically driven quasi-two-dimensional flow to study the interaction between active matter and flow. We focused on the impact of swarming active matter on hyperbolic Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) that mark the most straining regions in the flow. We illustrated that the impact of active matter on LCSs was much more significant compared to localized random noise with similar energy input. In addition, we revealed that the perturbation generated by active matter could couple with the background flow and further deform the LCSs. In addition, we also revealed that the rotational elliptical region of the flow was much more susceptible to active matter perturbation. We further described how the influence of active matter changed with their number densities and background flow intensities. We revealed that the LCSs could be decently altered even at a small number density of active matter. We aim to provide valuable insights and draw attention to the problem regarding the interaction between active matter and external flow structures.

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