Feng Ling
Postdoc @ Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, studying biophysics, cilia, and mucus flow. Looking for Universality from Diversity.
Feng Ling
April 18, 2018
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activities
mechanics
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Nonequilibrium Dynamics
steady energy inputs
complex forcing
interactions
Things don't stay isotropically 'random'
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Are we interested in the substrates?
short-range interactions
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long-range interactions
Key Results: Dry Active Matter
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Matter at thermal equilibrium
Active matter not at equilibrium
Key Results: Dry Active Matter
Standard deviation ∝n instead of √n
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Key Results: Dry Active Matter
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Key Results: Dry Active Matter
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Key Results: Dry Active Matter
Polar Motion and Apolar Motion
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Ferromagnetic and Nematic Alignment
Key Results: Dry Active Matter
mean motion!
traveling sound waves and splay
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Key Results: Dry Active Matter
no mean motion :(
curvature currents
polar clusters (wtih steric interactions)
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Key Results: Wet Active Matter
Topological Defects in 2D
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Ferromagnetic
/Polar
Nematic
Monopole
Vortex
+1/2
-1/2
Key Results: Wet Active Matter
Active Defects
Spontaneous Flows
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Key Results: Wet Active Matter
puller swimmers increase bulk viscosity
pusher swimmers decrease viscosity
enhanced elasticity near isotropic-nematic transition
prestress in ordered matter
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Key Results: Applications
cell motility and migration
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theories
simulations
experiments
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Techniques: Hard to do, but easy to explain
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Techniques: Difficult to do, and hard to describe
Synchronization problems
interactions of limited number of "active agents"
separation of slow and fast variables
Kinetic theories
congestion theory for p
... Coarse-graining Techniques
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Techniques: say what?
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Microscopic
Dynamics
Macroscopic
Dynamics
'Coarse Graining'
Funciton
"Local"
"Global"
\(\Longrightarrow\)
Techniques: say what?
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Local Conservation Laws
(Simplified Models)
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Uncertainties and Noises
(Brownian Motion)
Microscopic
Dynamics
Macroscopic
Dynamics
'Coarse Graining'
Funciton
Techniques: say what?
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Microscopic
Dynamics
Macroscopic
Dynamics
'Coarse Graining'
Funciton
Probability Distribution
Correlation Functions
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Global
Field Variables
"Point Spread"
functions
"moments" of pdfs
Techniques: say what?
Conservation of Mass
Momentum Balance
Energy Balance
(Entropy Balance)
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Bulk Properties
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Microscopic
Dynamics
Macroscopic
Dynamics
'Coarse Graining'
Funciton
Navier-Stokes
Irving-Kirkwood
Techniques: Analytical
Start from Microscopic models of self-propelled particles / motors / filaments
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Langevin equations
Fokker-Planck or
Smoluchowski Eqns
Hydrodynamics
project microscopic degrees of freedom to field variables
Convert microscopic equations to equations of probability distributions
Convection–diffusion
Equation for pdfs
Overdamped
Newton's Law+Noise
Techniques: Analytical
Start from Microscopic models of self-propelled particles / motors / filaments
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project microscopic degrees of freedom to field variables
Convert microscopic equations to equations of probability distributions
What Don't We Know? or really...
Tying things down to the specifics
Deeper theoretical understandings
What I Saw at the APS March Meeting
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The Future
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Summary
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Articles
Marchetti, M. Cristina, et al. "Hydrodynamics of soft active matter." Reviews of Modern Physics 85.3 (2013): 1143.
Baskaran, Aparna, and M. Cristina Marchetti. "Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of self-propelled hard rods." Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2010.04 (2010): P04019.
Klymko, Katherine, Dibyendu Mandal, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu. "Statistical mechanics of transport processes in active fluids: Equations of hydrodynamics." The Journal of chemical physics 147.19 (2017): 194109.
Websites
Figures and Movies
Sanchez, Tim, et al. "Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter." Nature 491.7424 (2012): 431.
Palacci, Jeremie, et al. "Living crystals of light-activated colloidal surfers." Science (2013): 1230020.
Narayan, Vijay, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Narayanan Menon. "Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a swarming granular nematic." Science 317.5834 (2007): 105-108.
Galajda, Peter, et al. "A wall of funnels concentrates swimming bacteria." Journal of bacteriology 189.23 (2007): 8704-8707.
Alonso-Matilla, R., and D. Saintillan. "Microfluidic flow actuation using magnetoactive suspensions." EPL (Europhysics Letters) 121.2 (2018): 24002.
Thutupalli, Shashi, et al. "Directional reversals enable Myxococcus xanthus cells to produce collective one-dimensional streams during fruiting-body formation." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12.109 (2015): 20150049
Lectures
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By Feng Ling