Noise-induced transitions from contractile to extensile active stress in isotropic fluids

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Main Authors: Dedenon, Mathieu, Kruse, Karsten
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Published: 2024
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author Dedenon, Mathieu
Kruse, Karsten
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Kruse, Karsten
contents Tissues of living cells are a prime example of active fluids. There is experimental evidence that tissues generate extensile active stress even though their constituting cells are contractile. Fluctuating forces that could result from cell-substrate interactions have been proposed to be able to induce a transition from contractile to extensile active stress. Through analytic calculations and numerical computations, we show that in isotropic active fluids, nonlinearities and a coupling between fluctuating forces and fluid density are necessary for such a transition to occur. Here, both transitions from extensile to contractile and vice versa are possible.
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spellingShingle Noise-induced transitions from contractile to extensile active stress in isotropic fluids
Dedenon, Mathieu
Kruse, Karsten
Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
Tissues of living cells are a prime example of active fluids. There is experimental evidence that tissues generate extensile active stress even though their constituting cells are contractile. Fluctuating forces that could result from cell-substrate interactions have been proposed to be able to induce a transition from contractile to extensile active stress. Through analytic calculations and numerical computations, we show that in isotropic active fluids, nonlinearities and a coupling between fluctuating forces and fluid density are necessary for such a transition to occur. Here, both transitions from extensile to contractile and vice versa are possible.
title Noise-induced transitions from contractile to extensile active stress in isotropic fluids
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14358