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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 102, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.118107
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- CEFIPRA [3504-2]
- DST Math-Bio Centre [SR/S4/MS:419/07]
We formulate the thin-film hydrodynamics of a suspension of polar self-driven particles and show that it is prone to several instabilities through the interplay of activity, polarity, and the existence of a free surface. Our approach extends, to self-propelling systems, the work of Ben Amar and Cummings [Phys. Fluids 13 1160 (2001)] on thin-film nematics. Based on our estimates the instabilities should be seen in bacterial suspensions and the lamellipodium, and are potentially relevant to the morphology of biofilms. We suggest several experimental tests of our theory.
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