3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Channel flows of deformable nematics
Ioannis Hadjifrangiskou, Sumesh P. Thampi, Julia M. Yeomans
We describe channel flows in a continuum model of deformable nematic particles. In a simple shear flow, deformability leads to a nonlinear coupling of strain rate and vorticity, an…
cond-mat.soft2025
Cellular dynamics emerging from turbulent flows steered by active filaments
Mehrana R. Nejad, Julia M. Yeomans, Sumesh P Thampi
We develop a continuum theory to describe the collective dynamics of deformable epithelial cells, using two tensor order parameters to distinguish the force-generating active filam…
cond-mat.soft2024
Phase Ordering in Binary Mixtures of Active Nematic Fluids
Saraswat Bhattacharyya, Julia M. Yeomans
We use a continuum, two-fluid approach to study a mixture of two active nematic fluids. Even in the absence of thermodynamically-driven ordering, for mixtures of different activiti…