Active turbulence

R Alert, J Casademunt, JF Joanny - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have
been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self …

Computational models for active matter

MR Shaebani, A Wysocki, RG Winkler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Active matter, which ranges from molecular motors to groups of animals, exists at different
length scales and timescales, and various computational models have been proposed to …

Self-propelled rods: Insights and perspectives for active matter

M Bär, R Großmann, S Heidenreich… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
A wide range of experimental systems including gliding, swarming and swimming bacteria,
in vitro motility assays, and shaken granular media are commonly described as self …

Bacterial active matter

IS Aranson - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

Fluid dynamics of bacterial turbulence

J Dunkel, S Heidenreich, K Drescher, HH Wensink… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Self-sustained turbulent structures have been observed in a wide range of living fluids, yet
no quantitative theory exists to explain their properties. We report experiments on active …

Confinement stabilizes a bacterial suspension into a spiral vortex

H Wioland, FG Woodhouse, J Dunkel, JO Kessler… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Confining surfaces play crucial roles in dynamics, transport, and order in many physical
systems, but their effects on active matter, a broad class of dynamically self-organizing …

Pattern formation in quantum ferrofluids: From supersolids to superglasses

J Hertkorn, JN Schmidt, M Guo, F Böttcher, KSH Ng… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Pattern formation is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed in nonlinear and out-of-equilibrium
systems. In equilibrium, quantum ferrofluids formed from ultracold atoms were recently …

Universal scaling of active nematic turbulence

R Alert, JF Joanny, J Casademunt - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
A landmark of turbulence is the emergence of universal scaling laws, such as Kolmogorov's
E (q)~ q− 5∕ 3 scaling of the kinetic energy spectrum of inertial turbulence with the …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering bacterial vortex lattice via direct laser lithography

D Nishiguchi, IS Aranson, A Snezhko… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A suspension of swimming bacteria is possibly the simplest realization of active matter, ie a
class of systems transducing stored energy into mechanical motion. Collective swimming of …

New class of turbulence in active fluids

V Bratanov, F Jenko, E Frey - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Turbulence is a fundamental and ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, occurring from
astrophysical to biophysical scales. At the same time, it is widely recognized as one of the …