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Swimming Efficiently by Wrapping
H. Gidituri, M. Ellero, F. Balboa Usabiaga
Single flagellated bacteria are ubiquitous in nature. They exhibit various swimming modes using their flagella to explore complex surroundings such as soil and porous polymer netwo…
Motile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls
Ephraim S. Bililign, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Yehuda A. Ganan +6
The competition between thermal fluctuations and potential forces is the foundation of our understanding of phase transitions and matter in equilibrium. Driving matter out of equil…
Brownian Dynamics of Confined Suspensions of Active Microrollers
Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Blaise Delmotte, Aleksandar Donev
We develop efficient numerical methods for performing many-body Brownian dynamics simulations of a recently-observed fingering instability in an active suspension of colloidal roll…
Rapid Sampling of Stochastic Displacements in Brownian Dynamics Simulations
A. M. Fiore, F. Balboa Usabiaga, A. Donev +1
We present a new method for sampling stochastic displacements in Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulations of colloidal scale particles. The method relies on a new formulation for Ewald s…
Brownian Dynamics of Confined Rigid Bodies
Steven Delong, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Aleksandar Donev
We introduce numerical methods for simulating the diffusive motion of rigid bodies of arbitrary shape immersed in a viscous fluid. We parameterize the orientation of the bodies usi…
A multiblob approach to colloidal hydrodynamics with inherent lubrication
Adolfo Vázquez-Quesada, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni
This work presents an intermediate resolution model of the hydrodynamics of colloidal particles based on a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation. The particle is constructed with a…