Instabilities and chaos in a kinetic equation for active nematics

We study dry active nematics at the kinetic equation level, stressing the differences with the well-known Doi theory for non-active rods near thermal equilibrium. By deriving hydrodynamic equations from the kinetic equation, we show analytically that these two description levels share the same quali...

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Main Authors: Xia-qing Shi, Hugues Chaté, Yu-qiang Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/035003