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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Learning hydrodynamic equations for active matter from particle simulations and experiments.

Rohit Supekar, Boya Song, Alasdair Hastewell, Gary P T Choi, Alexander Mietke, Jörn Dunkel

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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6 authors.

Rohit SupekarDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-1226-0710
Boya SongDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Alasdair HastewellDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0003-2633-380X
Gary P T ChoiDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0001-5407-9111
Alexander MietkeDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0003-1170-2406
Jörn DunkelDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0001-8865-2369

Funding

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (APSF) G-2021-16758Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Project~431144836European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) ALTF~528-2019National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS-1952706National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS-2002103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in high-resolution imaging techniques and particle-based simulation methods have enabled the precise microscopic characterization of collective dynamics in various biological and engineered active matter systems. In parallel, data-driven algorithms for learning interpretable continuum models have shown promising potential for the recovery of underlying partial differential equations (PDEs) from continuum simulation data. By contrast, learning macroscopic hydrodynamic equations for active matter directly from experiments or particle simulations remains a major challenge, especially when continuum models are not known a priori or analytic coarse graining fails, as often is the case for nondilute and heterogeneous systems. Here, we present a framework that leverages spectral basis representations and sparse regression algorithms to discover PDE models from microscopic simulation and experimental data, while incorporating the relevant physical symmetries. We illustrate the practical potential through a range of applications, from a chiral active particle model mimicking nonidentical swimming cells to recent microroller experiments and schooling fish. In all these cases, our scheme learns hydrodynamic equations that reproduce the self-organized collective dynamics observed in the simulations and experiments. This inference framework makes it possible to measure a large number of hydrodynamic parameters in parallel and directly from video data.

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active mattercoarse-graininghydrodynamic equationssparse regression

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PMID36763535
PMCPMC9963139

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