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Paweł Matus1, Ruben Lier2,3, Piotr Surówka4
1<a href="https://ror.org/01bf9rw71">Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems</a> and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, 01187 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
We consider an active, stochastic microscopic model of particles suspended in a fluid and show that the coarse-grained description of this model renders odd viscoelasticity. The particles are odd dumbbells, each featuring a robotic device as the bead, which exhibits a particular torque response. We show that this model can be macroscopically treated as a viscoelastic fluid, analytically calculate the coefficients of the corresponding viscoelastic model, and corroborate the results using molecular dynamics simulations. This study provides a unified analytical framework for several experimental and numerical setups designed to elucidate odd effects in fluids.
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