2 papers
cond-mat.soft2017
The interplay between activity and filament flexibility determines the emergent properties of active nematics
Abhijeet Joshi, Elias Putzig, Aparna Baskaran +1
Active nematics are microscopically driven liquid crystals that exhibit dynamical steady states characterized by the creation and annihilation of topological defects. Motivated by…
physics.flu-dyn2016
Front structure and dynamics in dense colonies of motile bacteria: Role of active turbulence
Rayan Chatterjee, Abhijeet A. Joshi, Prasad Perlekar
We study the spreading of a bacterial colony undergoing turbulent like collective motion. We present two minimalistic models to investigate the interplay between population growth…