Order and hydrodynamic fluctuations in active suspensions

In this Thesis we study theoretically some aspects of the dynamics of soft active suspensions. Following a bottom-up approach, we derive the continuum equations for a suspension starting from underlying models for the microscopic dynamics, where the microscopic objects are constructed out of spheres...

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Main Author: Leoni, Marco
Published: University of Bristol 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556720