Instabilities, pattern formation, and mixing in active suspensions

DOI10.1063/1.3041776zbMath1182.76654MaRDI QIDQ5304321

Michael J. Shelley, David Saintillan

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/86b1020d1158be9c5b8d571833efa3bd15d7506b

zbMATH Keywords

pattern formation; fluctuations; mixing; computational fluid dynamics; suspensions; nonlinear dynamical systems; multiphase flow; flow instability; biological fluid dynamics; microorganisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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