Thursday, June 21, 2012

1206.4473 (M. Ikeda et al.)

Instabilities and turbulence-like dynamics in an oppositely driven
binary particle mixture
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M. Ikeda, H. Wada, H. Hayakawa
Using extensive particle-based simulations, we investigate out-of-equilibirum pattern dynamics in an oppositely driven binary particle system in two dimensions. A surprisingly rich dynamical behavior including lane formation, jamming, oscillation and turbulence-like dynamics is found. The ratio of two friction coefficients is a key parameter governing the stability of lane formation. When the friction coefficient transverse to the external force direction is sufficiently small compared to the longtitudinal one, the lane structure becomes unstable to shear-induced disturbances, and the system eventually exhibits a dynamical transition into a novel turbulence-like phase characterized by random convective flows. We numerically construct an out-of-equilibrium phase diagram. Statistical analysis of complex spatio-tempral dynamics of the fully nonlinear turbulence-like phase suggests its apparent reminiscence to the swarming dynamics in certain active matter systems.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4473

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