Dynamically asymmetric and bicontinuous morphologies in active emulsions

Livio Nicola Carenza, Giuseppe Gonnella (), Antonio Lamura () and Giuseppe Negro ()
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Livio Nicola Carenza: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari and INFN, Sezione di Bari, via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy
Giuseppe Gonnella: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari and INFN, Sezione di Bari, via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy
Antonio Lamura: Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo, CNR, via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
Giuseppe Negro: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari and INFN, Sezione di Bari, via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2019, vol. 30, issue 10, 1-8

Abstract: The morphology of a mixture made of a polar active gel immersed in an isotropic passive fluid is studied numerically. Lattice Boltzmann method is adopted to solve the Navier–Stokes equation and coupled to a finite-difference scheme used to integrate the dynamic equations of the concentration and of the polarization of the active component. By varying the relative amounts of the mixture phases, different structures can be observed. In the contractile case, at moderate values of activity, elongated structures are formed when the active component is less abundant, while a dynamic emulsion of passive droplets in an active matrix is obtained for symmetric composition. When the active component is extensile, aster-like rotating droplets and a phase-separated pattern appear for asymmetric and symmetric mixtures, respectively. The relevance of space dimensions in the overall morphology is shown by studying the system in three dimensions in the case of extensile asymmetric mixtures where interconnected tube-like structures span the whole system.

Keywords: Polar active gels; emulsions; hybrid lattice Boltzmann method; morphological patterns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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