Odd viscosity in chiral active fluids

Active chiral fluids are a special case of active matter in which energy is introduced into rotational motion via local application of torque. Here Banerjee et al. develop a hydrodynamic theory of such active fluids and connect it with odd viscosity which was previously considered an abstract concep...

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Main Authors: Debarghya Banerjee, Anton Souslov, Alexander G. Abanov, Vincenzo Vitelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01378-7