3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
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…
physics.flu-dyn2025
Elastohydrodynamics of 3D chemically active filaments
Matthew D Butler, Benjamin J Walker, Thomas Montenegro-Johnson +1
Active deformable filaments exhibit a large range of qualitatively different three-dimensional dynamics, depending on their flexibility, the strength and nature of the active forci…
physics.flu-dyn2024
Slender Phoretic Loops and Knots
Panayiota Katsamba, Matthew D. Butler, Lyndon Koens +1
We present an asymptotic theory for solving the dynamics of slender autophoretic loops and knots. Our formulation is valid for non-intersecting 3D centrelines, with arbitrary chemi…