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Instabilities and waves in thin films of living fluids
Sumithra Sankararaman, Sriram Ramaswamy
We formulate the thin-film hydrodynamics of a suspension of polar self-driven particles and show that it is prone to several instabilities through the interplay of activity, polari…
Asters, Spirals and Vortices in Mixtures of Motors and Microtubules: The Effects of Confining Geometries on Pattern Formation
Sumithra Sankararaman, Gautam I. Menon, P. B. Sunil Kumar
We model the effects of confinement on the stable self-organized patterns obtained in the non-equilibrium steady states of mixtures of molecular motors and microtubules. In experim…
Self-organized Pattern Formation in Motor-Microtubule Mixtures
Sumithra Sankararaman, Gautam I. Menon, P. B. Sunil Kumar
We propose and study a hydrodynamic model for pattern formation in mixtures of molecular motors and microtubules. The steady state patterns we obtain in different regimes of parame…
Quantum Hall Skyrmion Lattices at
Sumithra Sankararaman, R. Shankar
We investigate the classical ground state configurations of a collection of skyrmions in the limit of vanishing Lánde factor. We show that in this limit, the skyrmions which ar…
Two-Component Fluid Membranes Near Repulsive Walls: Linearized Hydrodynamics of Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium States
Sumithra Sankararaman, Gautam I. Menon, P. B. Sunil Kumar
We study the linearized hydrodynamics of a two-component fluid membrane near a repulsive wall, via a model which incorporates curvature- concentration coupling as well as hydrodyna…
Spiral orientational order in quantum Hall skyrmion lattices
Sumithra Sankararaman, R. Shankar
We investigate the existence of spiral ordering in the planar spin orientation of skyrmions localised on a face centered rectangular lattice (FCRL). We use the non-linear sigma mod…