activity
20242026
collaborators

9 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Squirming motion near corrugated surfaces

Sagnik Garai, Thomas G. Fai, Christina Kurzthaler

Swimming microorganisms often operate in complex confinement, where an interplay of long-ranged hydrodynamic interactions and a short-ranged repulsive interaction can give rise to…

cond-mat.soft2026

Disorder-induced persistent random motion and trapping of microswimmers

Mirko Residori, Sebastian Aland, Christina Kurzthaler

Microorganisms ofter move in confined, disordered environments, where hydrodynamic couplings can modify their transport behavior. Using extensive finite-element simulations, we inv…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Active Brownian Dynamics in Channels: First-Passage and Spatiotemporal Properties via Siegmund Duality

Yanis Baouche, Mathis Guéneau, Mathis Guéneau +1

Accumulation at boundaries represents a widely observed phenomenon in active systems with implications for microbial ecology and engineering applications. To rationalize the underl…

cond-mat.soft2025

Vorticity-induced surfing and trapping in porous media

Pallabi Das, Mirko Residori, Axel Voigt +2

Microorganisms often encounter strong confinement and complex hydrodynamic flows while navigating their habitats. Combining finite-element methods and stochastic simulations, we st…

cond-mat.soft2025

Hydrodynamic Attraction and Hindered Diffusion Govern First-passage Times of Swimming Microorganisms

Yanis Baouche, Magali Le Goff, Thomas Franosch +1

The motion of microorganisms in their natural habitat is strongly influenced by their propulsion mechanisms, geometrical constraints, and random fluctuations. Here, we study numeri…

cond-mat.soft2025

Optimal first-passage times of active Brownian particles under stochastic resetting

Yanis Baouche, Christina Kurzthaler

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of an active Brownian particle under stochastic resetting to its initial configuration, comprising its position and orientation, to…