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Squirming motion near corrugated surfaces
Sagnik Garai, Thomas G. Fai, Christina Kurzthaler
Swimming microorganisms often operate in complex confinement, where an interplay of long-ranged hydrodynamic interactions and a short-ranged repulsive interaction can give rise to…
Emergence of Anti-chemotactic Flocking in Active Biomimetic Colloids
Joseph D. Lopes, Benjamin Winterstrain, Fernando Caballero +11
Competition for resources is a fundamental constraint that guides the self-organization of natural, biological, and human systems, ranging from urban planning and ecosystem develop…
A confined rod: mean field theory for hard rod-like particles
Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga +2
In this paper, we model the configurations of a system of hard rods by viewing each rod in a cell formed by its neighbors. By minimizing the free energy in the model and performing…
Modeling the Transition between Localized and Extended Deposition in Flow Networks through Packings of Glass Beads
Gess Kelly, Navid Bizmark, Bulbul Chakraborty +2
We use a theoretical model to explore how fluid dynamics, in particular, the pressure gradient and wall shear stress in a channel, affect the deposition of particles flowing in a m…
Multiscale Model of Clogging in Microfluidic Devices with Grid-Like Geometries
Gess Kelly, Thomas G. Fai
We propose a coarse-grained theoretical model to capture the aging of microfluidic devices under different conditions including constant applied flow rate and constant applied pres…
Leaky Cell Model of Hard Spheres
Thomas G. Fai, Jamie M. Taylor, Epifanio G. Virga +2
We study packings of hard spheres on lattices. The partition function, and therefore the pressure, may be written solely in terms of the accessible free volume, i.e. the volume of…
Dynamics of growth and form in prebiotic vesicles
Teresa Ruiz-Herrero, Thomas G. Fai, L. Mahadevan
The growth, form, and division of prebiotic vesicles, membraneous bags of fluid of varying components and shapes is hypothesized to have served as the substrate for the origin of l…
Active elastohydrodynamics of vesicles in narrow, blind constrictions
Thomas G. Fai, Remy Kusters, Jens Harting +2
Fluid-resistance limited transport of vesicles through narrow constrictions is a recurring theme in many biological and engineering applications. Inspired by the motor-driven movem…