Minimal model for a hydrodynamic fingering instability in microroller suspensions
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A minimal model for a hydrodynamic fingering instability in microroller suspensions
Paul Chaikin Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. Abstract We derive a minimal continuum model to investigate the hydrodynamic mechanism behind the fingering instability recently discovered in a suspension of microrollers near a floor [Driscoll et al. Nature Physics, 2016]. Our model, consisting of two continuous lines of rotlets, exhibits a linear instability dr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Fluids
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2469-990X
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.2.114301