Active Nematodynamics on Curved Surfaces – The Influence of Geometric Forces on Motion Patterns of Topological Defects

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Abstract

We derive and numerically solve a surface active nematodynamics model. We validate the numerical approach on a sphere and analyse the influence of hydrodynamics on the oscillatory motion of topological defects. For ellipsoidal surfaces the influence of geometric forces on these motion patterns is addressed by taking into account the effects of intrinsic as well as extrinsic curvature contributions. The numerical experiments demonstrate the stronger coupling with geometric properties if extrinsic curvature contributions are present and provide a possibility to tune flow and defect motion by surface properties.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)947-965
Number of pages19
JournalCommunications in Computational Physics
Volume2022
Issue number31(3)
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Keywords

Keywords

  • Defect dynamics, Hydrodynamic coupling, Surface finite elements, Topological active matter

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