2 papers
cond-mat.soft2017
Noise and diffusion of a vibrated self-propelled granular particle
Lee Walsh, Caleb G. Wagner, Sarah Schlossberg +3
Granular materials are an important physical realization of active matter. In vibration-fluidized granular matter, both diffusion and self-propulsion derive from the same collision…
physics.flu-dyn2012
Unwrapping Chains
A. D. Cambou, B. D. Gamari, E. Hamm +4
A loop of chain can move along its own tangents, maintaining a steady shape. An open-ended chain undergoing a nontrivial motion must change its shape. One consequence is that chain…