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  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics

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  • Active nematics are modeled using continuum theories and partial differential equations (PDEs).
  • Identifying relevant terms and parameters in these PDEs is typically an indirect process.
  • Current models offer a statistical description but lack direct parameter identification from data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To adapt a novel method for automatically identifying optimal continuum models for active nematics directly from spatiotemporal data.
  • To apply this method to experimental data from microtubule-based active nematics.
  • To demonstrate the generalizability of the approach to other active matter systems.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing sparse regression to identify optimal continuum models.
  • Coarse-graining spatiotemporal data to obtain relevant fields.
  • Applying a recently developed automated model identification technique.

Main Results:

  • Successfully adapted a method for direct, data-driven model identification of active nematics.
  • Applied the method to microtubule-based active nematics experiments.
  • Discovered a surprisingly minimal set of governing equations for the system.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method enables direct identification of continuum models from experimental data.
  • A minimal description of microtubule-based active nematics was achieved.
  • The approach is applicable to diverse active matter systems like active gels and microswimmers.