2022/05/10 by Dallas Albritton, Albritton, Dallas, Laurel Ohm +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Micro and Nano Robotics #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2205.04922
We consider a kinetic model of an active suspension of rod-like microswimmers. In certain regimes, swimming has a stabilizing effect on the suspension. We quantify this effect near homogeneous isotropic equilibria ψ = const. Notably, in the absence of particle (translational and orientational) diffusion, swimming is the only stabilizing mechanism. On the torus, in the non-diffusive regime, we demonstrate linear Landau damping up to the stability threshold predicted in the applied literature. With small diffusion, we demonstrate nonlinear stability of arbitrary equilibrium values for pullers (front-actuated swimmers) and enhanced dissipation for both pullers and pushers (rear-actuated swimmers) at small concentrations. On the whole space, we prove nonlinear stability of the vacuum equilibrium due to generalized Taylor dispersion.