Swimming Things: Probability Distributions for Self-propelled Particles
Swimming Things: Probability Distributions for Self-propelled Particles
- Event time: 11:30am until 12:30pm
- Event date: 2nd November 2016
- Speaker: Dr Aidan Brown (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
I will present two basic models for self-propelled particles, the run-and-tumble model and the active-Brownian-particle model, which have particular relevance for motile bacteria such as E. coli on the one hand, and self-propelled, synthetic particles on the other. I will show how to derive some basic statistics of these models [1, 2], highlighting the similarities and differences, and briefly discuss the relevance of this for studies of ?active matter? ? the collective behaviour of many such interacting particles [3].
[1] Martens et al. EPJE 35, 1 (2012).
[2] Ebbens et al. PRE 82, 015304 (2010).
[3] Cates & Tailleur EPL 101, 20010 (2013).
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