2 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics in driven macroscopic self-assembly
Stuart J. Thomson, Jack-William Barotta, Daniel M. Harris
Equilibrium statistical mechanics provides a robust framework for characterizing phase transitions in systems whose microsopic dynamics are time-reversible. Efforts to develop and…
physics.flu-dyn2020
Collective vibrations of a hydrodynamic active lattice
Stuart J. Thomson, Matthew Durey, Rodolfo R. Rosales
Recent experiments show that quasi-one-dimensional lattices of self-propelled droplets exhibit collective instabilities in the form of out-of-phase oscillations and solitary-like w…