Emergence of Local Ordering and Mesoscale Giant Number Fluctuations in Active Turbulence

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Auteurs principaux: Kashyap, Kirti, Kiran, Kolluru Venkata, Gupta, Anupam
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author Kashyap, Kirti
Kiran, Kolluru Venkata
Gupta, Anupam
author_facet Kashyap, Kirti
Kiran, Kolluru Venkata
Gupta, Anupam
contents We study spatiotemporal chaos in two-dimensional dense active suspensions using a generalized hydrodynamic model. Increasing activity induces a structural transition marked by the formation of intense vortices and giant number fluctuations at the mesoscale. The flow self-organizes into locally polar-ordered regions coexisting with chaotic domains, producing a bimodal velocity distribution and enhanced correlations. This mixed-state morphology underlies the universal statistical behavior observed beyond a critical activity threshold. Reducing the instability timescale yields similar transitions, showing that both activity and instability act as control parameters for pattern formation. An energy-based order parameter derived from the system's budget quantifies and unifies these structural transitions across the phase space of activity and instability timescales.
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spellingShingle Emergence of Local Ordering and Mesoscale Giant Number Fluctuations in Active Turbulence
Kashyap, Kirti
Kiran, Kolluru Venkata
Gupta, Anupam
Fluid Dynamics
We study spatiotemporal chaos in two-dimensional dense active suspensions using a generalized hydrodynamic model. Increasing activity induces a structural transition marked by the formation of intense vortices and giant number fluctuations at the mesoscale. The flow self-organizes into locally polar-ordered regions coexisting with chaotic domains, producing a bimodal velocity distribution and enhanced correlations. This mixed-state morphology underlies the universal statistical behavior observed beyond a critical activity threshold. Reducing the instability timescale yields similar transitions, showing that both activity and instability act as control parameters for pattern formation. An energy-based order parameter derived from the system's budget quantifies and unifies these structural transitions across the phase space of activity and instability timescales.
title Emergence of Local Ordering and Mesoscale Giant Number Fluctuations in Active Turbulence
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04890