Preprint
Sep 2026
Active Hydrodynamics Couples Polymer Organization, Shape Fluctuations, and Motility in Deformable Droplets
We study semiflexible active polymers confined within a soft, deformable droplet suspended in a fluid using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. Extensile and contractile force dipoles along the polymer backbone generate distinct hydrodynamic flow fields that mediate effective interactions between polymer s...
Ritu R. Raj, P. B. Sunil Kumar
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