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It is known that some flagellated bacteria like Serratia marcescens, when deposited and affixed onto a surface to form a “bacterial carpet”, self-organize in a collective motion of the flagella that is capable of pumping fluid through microfluidic channels. We set up a continuum model comprising two ...

We investigate the effects of flow on the dynamics of ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystals. As a model we study the coupled dynamics of the magnetization, M, the director field, n, associated with the liquid crystalline orientational order and the velocity field v. We evaluate how simple shear flow ...

An effective macroscopic model of magnetorheological fluids in the viscoelastic regime is proposed. Under the application of an external magnetic field, columns of magnetizable particles are formed in these systems. The columns are responsible for solidlike properties, such as the existence of elast ...

We investigate macroscopic two-fluid effects in magnetorheological fluids generalizing a one-fluid model studied before. In the bulk of the paper we use a model in which the carrier fluid, with density ρ1, moves with velocity v1, while the magnetic component (density ρ2) and, therefore, the magnetiz ...