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  • Title: Globally aligned states and hydrodynamic traffic jams in confined suspensions of active asymmetric particles.
    Author: Lefauve A, Saintillan D.
    Journal: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys; 2014 Feb; 89(2):021002. PubMed ID: 25353410.
    Abstract:
    Strongly confined active liquids are subject to unique hydrodynamic interactions due to momentum screening and lubricated friction by the confining walls. Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate that two-dimensional dilute suspensions of fore-aft asymmetric polar swimmers in a Hele-Shaw geometry can exhibit a rich variety of novel phase behaviors depending on particle shape, including coherent polarized density waves with global alignment, persistent counterrotating vortices, density shocks and rarefaction waves. We also explain these phenomena using a linear stability analysis and a nonlinear traffic flow model, both derived from a mean-field kinetic theory.
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