3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Pore-scale distribution and transport of active particles in a two-dimensional lattice
Akhil Varma, David Saintillan
Suspensions of motile microswimmers such as bacteria and other active colloids frequently encounter porous environments where obstacles and complex shear flows strongly influence t…
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…