Turbulence-induced clustering in compressible active fluids
arXiv:2107.07588 · doi:10.1039/D1SM01276B
Abstract
We study a novel phase of active polar fluids, which is characterized by the continuous creation and destruction of dense clusters due to self-sustained turbulence. This state arises due to the interplay of the self-advection of the aligned swimmers and their defect topology. The typical cluster size is determined by the characteristic vortex size. Our results are obtained by investigating a continuum model of compressible polar active fluids, which incorporates typical experimental observations in bacterial suspensions by assuming a non-monotone dependence of speed on density.
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