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20102024
most citedMeso-scale turbulence in living fluids

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22 papers

cond-mat.soft2024★ 7 cited

Pattern selection and the route to turbulence in incompressible polar active fluids

Henning Reinken, Sebastian Heidenreich, Markus Bär +1

Active fluids, such as suspensions of microswimmers, are known to self-organize into complex spatio-temporal flow patterns. An intriguing example is mesoscale turbulence, a state o…

math.NA2021★ 4 cited

Adaptive non-intrusive reconstruction of solutions to high-dimensional parametric PDEs

Martin Eigel, Nando Farchmin, Sebastian Heidenreich +1

Numerical methods for random parametric PDEs can greatly benefit from adaptive refinement schemes, in particular when functional approximations are computed as in stochastic Galerk…

physics.bio-ph2021★ 48 cited

Biophysics underlying the swarm to biofilm transition

Vasco M. Worlitzer, Ajesh Jose, Ilana Grinberg +5

Bacteria organize in a variety of collective states, from swarming, which has been attributed to rapid surface exploration, to biofilms, which are highly dense immobile communities…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 9 cited

Turbulence-induced clustering in compressible active fluids

Vasco M. Worlitzer, Gil Ariel, Avraham Be'er +3

We study a novel phase of active polar fluids, which is characterized by the continuous creation and destruction of dense clusters due to self-sustained turbulence. This state aris…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 21 cited

Ising-like critical behavior of vortex lattices in an active fluid

Henning Reinken, Sebastian Heidenreich, Markus Bär +1

Turbulent vortex structures emerging in bacterial active fluids can be organized into regular vortex lattices by weak geometrical constraints such as obstacles. Here we show, using…

math.NA2021★ 5 cited

Efficient approximation of high-dimensional exponentials by tensornetworks

Martin Eigel, Nando Farchmin, Sebastian Heidenreich +1

In this work a general approach to compute a compressed representation of the exponential of a high-dimensional function is presented. Such exponential functions play…

cs.LG2021

Invertible Neural Networks versus MCMC for Posterior Reconstruction in Grazing Incidence X-Ray Fluorescence

Anna Andrle, Nando Farchmin, Paul Hagemann +3

Grazing incidence X-ray fluorescence is a non-destructive technique for analyzing the geometry and compositional parameters of nanostructures appearing e.g. in computer chips. In t…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 24 cited

Motility-Induced Clustering and Meso-Scale Turbulence in Active Polar Fluids

Vasco M. Worlitzer, Gil Ariel, Avraham Be'er +3

Meso-scale turbulence was originally observed experimentally in various suspensions of swimming bacteria, as well as in the collective motion of active colloids. The corresponding…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 30 cited

Heterogeneous bacterial swarms with mixed lengths

Shlomit Peled, Shawn D. Ryan, Sebastian Heidenreich +3

Heterogeneous systems of active matter exhibit a range of complex emergent dynamical patterns. In particular, it is difficult to predict the properties of the mixed system based on…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 12 cited

The anisotropy in the optical constants of quartz crystals for soft X-rays

A. Andrle, P. Hönicke, J. Vinson +5

The refractive index of a y-cut SiO crystal surface is reconstructed from polarization dependent soft X-ray reflectometry measurements in the energy range from 45 eV to 620 eV.…

physics.data-an2020★ 12 cited

Efficient Bayesian inversion for shape reconstruction of lithography masks

Nando Farchmin, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider +4

Background: Scatterometry is a fast, indirect and non-destructive optical method for quality control in the production of lithography masks. To solve the inverse problem in complia…

cond-mat.soft2019

A phase diagram for bacterial swarming

Avraham Be`er, Bella Ilkanaiv, Renan Gross +4

Bacterial swarming is a rapid mass-migration, in which thousands of cells spread collectively to colonize a surface. Physically, swarming is a natural example of active particles t…

physics.data-an2019★ 8 cited

An efficient approach to global sensitivity analysis and parameter estimation for line gratings

Nando Farchmin, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider +4

Scatterometry is a fast, indirect and nondestructive optical method for the quality control in the production of lithography masks. Geometry parameters of line gratings are obtaine…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 289 cited

Self-Propelled Rods: Insights and Perspectives for Active Matter

Markus Bär, Robert Großmann, Sebastian Heidenreich +1

A wide range of experimental systems including gliding, swarming and swimming bacteria, in-vitro motility assays as well as shaken granular media are commonly described as self-pro…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 18 cited

Asymmetric pattern formation in microswimmer suspensions induced by orienting fields

Henning Reinken, Sebastian Heidenreich, Markus Bär +1

This paper studies the influence of orienting external fields on pattern formation, particularly mesoscale turbulence, in microswimmer suspensions. To this end, we apply a hydrodyn…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 80 cited

Derivation of a hydrodynamic theory for mesoscale dynamics in microswimmer suspensions

Henning Reinken, Sabine H. L. Klapp, Markus Bär +1

In this paper we systematically derive a fourth-order continuum theory capable of reproducing mesoscale turbulence in a three-dimensional suspension of microswimmers. We start from…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 70 cited

Hydrodynamic length-scale selection and effective viscosity in microswimmer suspensions

Sebastian Heidenreich, Jörn Dunkel, Sabine H. L. Klapp +1

A universal characteristic of mesoscale turbulence in active suspensions is the emergence of a typical vortex length scale, distinctly different from the scale-invariance of turbul…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 573 cited

Fluid dynamics of bacterial turbulence

Jörn Dunkel, Sebastian Heidenreich, Knut Drescher +3

Self-sustained turbulent structures have been observed in a wide range of living fluids, yet no quantitative theory exists to explain their properties. We report experiments on act…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 120 cited

M87 at metre wavelengths: the LOFAR picture

F. de Gasperin, E. Orru', M. Murgia +92

M87 is a giant elliptical galaxy located in the centre of the Virgo cluster, which harbours a supermassive black hole of mass 6.4x10^9 M_sun, whose activity is responsible for the…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 1k cited

Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids

Henricus H. Wensink, Jörn Dunkel, Sebastian Heidenreich +4

Turbulence is ubiquitous, from oceanic currents to small-scale biological and quantum systems. Self-sustained turbulent motion in microbial suspensions presents an intriguing examp…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 107 cited

Minimal continuum theories of structure formation in dense active fluids

Jörn Dunkel, Sebastian Heidenreich, Markus Bär +1

Self-sustained dynamical phases of living matter can exhibit remarkable similarities over a wide range of scales, from mesoscopic vortex structures in microbial suspensions and mot…

cond-mat.soft2010★ 20 cited

Non-linear rheology of active particle suspensions: Insights from an analytical approach

Sebastian Heidenreich, Siegfried Hess, Sabine H. L. Klapp

We consider active suspensions in the isotropic phase subjected to a shear flow. Using a set of extended hydrodynamic equations we derive a variety of {\em analytical} expressions…