Theory of active suspensions

D Saintillan, MJ Shelley - … Fluids in Biological Systems: Experiment, Theory …, 2015 - Springer
Active suspensions, of which a bath of swimming microorganisms is a paradigmatic
example, denote large collections of individual particles or macromolecules capable of …

Variational bounds and nonlinear stability of an active nematic suspension

S Weady - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We use the entropy method to analyse the nonlinear dynamics and stability of a continuum
kinetic model of an active nematic suspension. From the time evolution of the relative …

On the stabilizing effect of swimming in an active suspension

D Albritton, L Ohm - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2023 - SIAM
We consider a kinetic model of an active suspension of rodlike microswimmers. In certain
regimes, swimming has a stabilizing effect on the suspension. We quantify this effect near …

Orientation mixing in active suspensions

M Coti Zelati, H Dietert, D Gérard-Varet - Annals of PDE, 2023 - Springer
We study a popular kinetic model introduced by Saintillan and Shelley for the dynamics of
suspensions of active elongated particles where the particles are described by a distribution …

Active matter invasion of a viscous fluid: Unstable sheets and a no-flow theorem

CJ Miles, AA Evans, MJ Shelley, SE Spagnolie - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We investigate the dynamics of a dilute suspension of hydrodynamically interacting motile or
immotile stress-generating swimmers or particles as they invade a surrounding viscous fluid …

Derivation of an Effective Rheology for Dilute Suspensions of Microswimmers

A Girodroux-Lavigne - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2023 - SIAM
We provide a rigorous derivation of an effective rheology for dilute viscous suspensions of
self-propelled particles. We derive at the limit an effective Stokes system with two additional …

Non-existence of mean-field models for particle orientations in suspensions

RM Höfer, A Mecherbet, R Schubert - Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2024 - Springer
We consider a suspension of spherical inertialess particles in a Stokes flow on the torus T 3.
The particles perturb a linear extensional flow due to their rigidity constraint. Due to the …

Derivation of the viscoelastic stress in Stokes flows induced by nonspherical Brownian rigid particles through homogenization

RM Höfer, M Leocata, A Mecherbet - Pure and Applied Analysis, 2023 - msp.org
We consider a microscopic model of n identical axis-symmetric rigid Brownian particles
suspended in a Stokes flow. We rigorously derive in the homogenization limit of many small …

Coupled self-organized hydrodynamics and Stokes models for suspensions of active particles

P Degond, S Merino-Aceituno, F Vergnet… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2019 - Springer
We derive macroscopic dynamics for self-propelled particles in a fluid. The starting point is a
coupled Vicsek–Stokes system. The Vicsek model describes self-propelled agents …

Global existence analysis of energy-reaction-diffusion systems

J Fischer, K Hopf, M Kniely, A Mielke - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2022 - SIAM
We establish global-in-time existence results for thermodynamically consistent reaction-
(cross-) diffusion systems coupled to an equation describing heat transfer. Our main interest …