activity
20062023
most citedHydrodynamic capture of microswimmers into sphere-bound orbits

259 citations · 1.9k across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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50 papers

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 17 cited

A note about convected time derivatives for flows of complex fluids

Howard A. Stone, Michael J. Shelley, Evgeniy Boyko

We present a direct derivation of the typical time derivatives used in a continuum description of complex fluid flows, harnessing the principles of the kinematics of line elements.…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 2 cited

Self-organized flows in phase-synchronizing active fluids

Brato Chakrabarti, Michael J. Shelley, Sebastian Fürthauer

Many active biological particles, such as swimming microorganisms or motor-proteins, do work on their environment by going though a periodic sequence of shapes. Interactions betwee…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 13 cited

Weakly nonlinear analysis of pattern formation in active suspensions

Laurel Ohm, Michael J. Shelley

We consider the Saintillan--Shelley kinetic model of active rodlike particles in Stokes flow (Saintillan & Shelley 2008a,b), for which the uniform, isotropic suspension of pusher p…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Enhanced clamshell swimming with asymmetric beating at low Reynolds number

Shiyuan Hu, Jun Zhang, Michael J. Shelley

A single flexible filament can be actuated to escape from the scallop theorem and generate net propulsion at low Reynolds number. In this work, we study the dynamics of a simple bo…

cond-mat.soft2022

Thermodynamically consistent coarse-graining of polar active fluids

Scott Weady, David B. Stein, Michael J. Shelley

We introduce a closure model for coarse-grained kinetic theories of polar active fluids. Based on a quasi-equilibrium approximation of the particle distribution function, the model…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 3 cited

The role of monolayer viscosity in Langmuir film hole closure dynamics

Leroy L. Jia, Michael J. Shelley

We re-examine the model proposed by Alexander et al. (2006) for the closing of a circular hole in a molecularly thin incompressible Langmuir film situated on a Stokesian subfluid.…