3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Instability and self-propulsion of flexible autophoretic filaments
Ursy Makanga, Akhil Varma, Panayiota Katsamba
Over the past decade, autophoretic colloids have emerged as a prototypical system for studying self-propelled motion at microscopic scales, with promising applications in microflui…
cond-mat.soft2025
Hydroelastic scattering and trapping of microswimmers
Sagnik Garai, Ursy Makanga, Akhil Varma +1
Deformable boundaries are omnipresent in the habitats of swimming microorganisms, leading to intricate hydroelastic couplings. Employing a perturbation theory, valid for small defo…
physics.flu-dyn2022
Obstacle-induced lateral dispersion and nontrivial trapping of flexible fibers settling in a viscous fluid
Ursy Makanga, Mohammadreza Sepahi, Camille Duprat +1
The motion of flexible fibers through structured fluidic environments is ubiquitous in nature and industrial applications. Most often, their dynamics results from the complex inter…