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Topological kicks enhance colloidal diffusivity in topological turbulence
Timofey Kozhukhov, Benjamin Loewe, Kristian Thijssen +1
Colloidal inclusions in nematic fluids induce topological defects that govern their dynamics. These defects create well-understood rheological behavior in passive nematics, but the…
Intercellular Friction and Motility Drive Orientational Order in Cell Monolayers
Michael Chiang, Austin Hopkins, Benjamin Loewe +2
Spatiotemporal patterns in multicellular systems are important to understanding tissue dynamics, for instance, during embryonic development and disease. Here, we use a multiphase f…
Multi-Particle Collision Framework for Active Polar Fluids
Oleksandr Baziei, BenjamÃn Loewe, Tyler N. Shendruk
Sufficiently dense intrinsically out-of-equilibrium suspensions, such as those observed in biological systems, can be modelled as active fluids characterised by their orientational…
Multiphase Field Model of Cells on a Substrate: From 3D to 2D
Michael Chiang, Austin Hopkins, Benjamin Loewe +2
Multiphase field models have emerged as an important computational tool for understanding biological tissue while resolving single-cell properties. While they have successfully rep…