Instabilities of ordered chiral active suspensions

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Abstract

Suspensions of actively contractile or tensile filaments with simple orientational order are hydrodynamically unstable. Here we study, analytically as well as numerically, the manner in which the presence of cholesteric order competes with this instability.

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Authors

  • Tapan Adhyapak

    CCMT, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 INDIA

  • Davide Marenduzzo

    The School of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, The Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK

  • Sriram Ramaswamy

    CCMT, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012., CCMT, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, CCMT, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 INDIA