Wake-mediated interaction between driven particles crossing a perpendicular flow
arXiv:1305.3206 · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2013/07/P07015
Abstract
Diagonal or chevron patterns are known to spontaneously emerge at the intersection of two perpendicular flows of self-propelled particles, e.g. pedestrians. The instability responsible for this pattern formation has been studied in previous work in the context of a mean-field approach. Here we investigate the microscopic mechanism yielding to this pattern. We present a lattice model study of the wake created by a particle crossing a perpendicular flow and show how this wake can localize other particles traveling in the same direction as a result of an effective interaction mediated by the perpendicular flow. The use of a semi-deterministic model allows us to characterize analytically the effective interaction between two particles.
23 pages, 8 figures. To appear in J. Stat. Mech
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