Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research talk: Structure and dynamics of an active nematic fluid : Microscopic and hydrodynamic considerations

Invited

Abstract

In this talk I will give an overview of the phenomenology of an active nematic fluid as understood from hydrodynamic theories and then identify questions that can only be addressed effectively by microscopic modelling and analysis. Finally I report results from a numerical simulation study that identifies the emergent signatures arising from the semiflexibility of the active nematogen.

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Presenters

  • Aparna Baskaran

    Brandeis University, Physics, Brandeis University, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Physics Department, Brandeis University

Authors

  • Aparna Baskaran

    Brandeis University, Physics, Brandeis University, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Physics Department, Brandeis University