Publication Date:
2016-08-24
Description:
Author(s): Nikolai Nikola, Alexandre P. Solon, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar, Julien Tailleur, and Raphaël Voituriez We study, from first principles, the pressure exerted by an active fluid of spherical particles on general boundaries in two dimensions. We show that, despite the nonuniform pressure along curved walls, an equation of state is recovered upon a proper spatial averaging. This holds even in the presenc… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 098001] Published Mon Aug 22, 2016
Keywords:
Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics
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