Controlling wall particle interactions with activity

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Hauptverfasser: Neville, Luke, Eggers, Jens, Liverpool, Tanniemola
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author Neville, Luke
Eggers, Jens
Liverpool, Tanniemola
author_facet Neville, Luke
Eggers, Jens
Liverpool, Tanniemola
contents We calculate the effective forces on hard disks near walls embedded inside active nematic liquid crystals. When the disks are sufficiently close to the wall and the flows are sufficiently slow, we can obtain exact expressions for the effective forces. We find these forces and the dynamics of disks near the wall depend both on the properties of the active nematic and on the anchoring conditions on the disks and the wall. Our results show that the presence of active stresses attract planar anchored disks to walls if the activity is extensile, and repel them if contractile. For normal anchored disks the reverse is true; they are attracted in contractile systems, and repelled in extensile ones.
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spellingShingle Controlling wall particle interactions with activity
Neville, Luke
Eggers, Jens
Liverpool, Tanniemola
Soft Condensed Matter
We calculate the effective forces on hard disks near walls embedded inside active nematic liquid crystals. When the disks are sufficiently close to the wall and the flows are sufficiently slow, we can obtain exact expressions for the effective forces. We find these forces and the dynamics of disks near the wall depend both on the properties of the active nematic and on the anchoring conditions on the disks and the wall. Our results show that the presence of active stresses attract planar anchored disks to walls if the activity is extensile, and repel them if contractile. For normal anchored disks the reverse is true; they are attracted in contractile systems, and repelled in extensile ones.
title Controlling wall particle interactions with activity
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04209