ArticleNature communications2017
Onset of meso-scale turbulence in active nematics.
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- Scaling Transition of Active Turbulence from Two to Three Dimensions.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Motor crosslinking augments elasticity in active nematics.Soft matter · 2024Article
- Physically informed data-driven modeling of active nematics.Science advances · 2023Article
- Self-mixing in microtubule-kinesin active fluid from nonuniform to uniform distribution of activity.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Flow around topological defects in active nematic films.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022Article
- Emergence and melting of active vortex crystals.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Submersed micropatterned structures control active nematic flow, topology, and concentration.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Confinement-induced self-organization in growing bacterial colonies.Science advances · 2021Article
- Towards an analytical description of active microswimmers in clean and in surfactant-covered drops.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2020Article
- Collective Dynamics of Model Pili-Based Twitcher-Mode Bacilliforms.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Dynamic instability and migration modes of collective cells in channels.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- Lattice Boltzmann methods and active fluids.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2019Review
- Active nematics.Nature communications · 2018Review
- Reentrant Phase Transitions and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Membraneless Organelles.Biochemistry · 2018Article
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Abstract
Meso-scale turbulence is an innate phenomenon, distinct from inertial turbulence, that spontaneously occurs at low Reynolds number in fluidized biological systems. This spatiotemporal disordered flow radically changes nutrient and molecular transport in living fluids and can strongly affect the collective behaviour in prominent biological processes, including biofilm formation, morphogenesis and cancer invasion. Despite its crucial role in such physiological processes, understanding meso-scale turbulence and any relation to classical inertial turbulence remains obscure. Here we show how the motion of active matter along a micro-channel transitions to meso-scale turbulence through the evolution of locally disordered patches (active puffs) from an ordered vortex-lattice flow state. We demonstrate that the stationary critical exponents of this transition to meso-scale turbulence in a channel coincide with the directed percolation universality class. This finding bridges our understanding of the onset of low-Reynolds-number meso-scale turbulence and traditional scale-invariant turbulence in confinement.
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