Publications/Talks

Publications (*: Equal contribution, ^: Corresponding author)

1. Delmotte, B.*^, Usabiaga, F. B.* (2024). A scalable method to model large suspensions of colloidal phoretic particles with arbitrary shapes (submitted). https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05337

2. Li, Z.*, Bielinski, C.*,  Lindner, A.^,  du Roure, O.^,  Delmotte, B.^ (2024). Non-trivial dynamics of rigid fibers interacting with triangular obstacles in microchannel flows. (to appear in Phys. Rev. Fluids). https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17635

3. Makanga, U.*, Delmotte, B.*, Duprat, C.* (2023). Patent: "Device for sorting fibres by differentiated lateral displacement and method for sorting fibres", FR2206968A/WO2024008947A1.

4. Delmotte, B. (2023). Viscosity ratio across interfaces controls the stability and self-assembly of microrollers. Physical Review Fluids, 8(6), L062302. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00073 

5. Makanga, U., Sepahi, M., Duprat, C.^, Delmotte, B.^ (2023). Obstacle-induced lateral dispersion and nontrivial trapping of flexible fibers settling in a viscous fluid. Physical Review Fluids, 8(4), 044303. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10692

6. van der Wee, E.^ , Blackwell, B., Usabiaga, F.B., Sokolov, A., Katz, I., Delmotte, B.*^, Driscoll, M.*^ (2023). A simple catch: thermal fluctuations enable hydrodynamic trapping of microrollers by obstacles. Science Advances 9(10), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.04995.pdf, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade0320 

In the news:  - Phys.org  "A surprising way to trap a microparticle", 

                     - CNRS Journal "Un piégeage de particules grâce au mouvement brownien"

7. Usabiaga, F. B.*, Delmotte, B.*^ (2022). A numerical method for suspensions of articulated bodies in viscous flows. Journal of Computational Physics, 111365. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10800

8. Westwood, T. A., Delmotte, B., & Keaveny, E. E. (2022). A generalised drift-correcting time integration scheme for Brownian suspensions of rigid particles with arbitrary shape. Journal of Computational Physics, 111437 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00449

9. Rojas-Pérez, F., Delmotte, B., & Michelin, S. (2021). Hydrochemical interactions of phoretic particles: a regularized multipole framework. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 919. ArXiV: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12396

10. Sprinkle, B., Wilken, S., Karapetyan, S., Tanaka, M., Chen, Z., Cruise, JR., Delmotte, B., Driscoll, M., Chaikin, P., Donev, A., (2021). Sedimentation of a colloidal monolayer down an inclined plane. Physical Review Fluids, 6(3), 034202. ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14472

11. M.  Sulaiman, E. Climent, B. Delmotte, P. Fede, F. Plouraboué, G. Verhille,  (2019). Numerical modelling of long flexible fibers in homogeneous isotropic turbulence, The European Physical Journal E. doi: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepje%2Fi2019-11894-7

12. Delmotte, B. (2019). Hydrodynamically bound states of a pair of microrollers: A dynamical system insight. Physical Review Fluids, 4(4), 044302.  doi: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.044302.  ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05168

13. M. Driscoll*^, B. Delmotte*^, (2018). Leveraging Collective Effects in Externally Driven Colloidal Suspensions: Experiments and Simulations.  Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2018.10.002, ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12977

14. B. Delmotte, E.E. Keaveny, E. Climent, F. Plouraboué, (2018). "Simulations of Brownian tracer transport in squirmer suspensions" IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxy012, ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01442

15. B. Delmotte, M. Driscoll, A. Donev, P. Chaikin, (2017). A minimal model for a hydrodynamic fingering instability in microroller suspensions. Physical Review Fluids. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.114301, ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07330

16. B. Delmotte, M. Driscoll, P. Chaikin, A. Donev, (2017). Hydrodynamic Shocks in Microroller Suspensions". Physical Review Fluids. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.092301,  ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03350 

17. F. Plouraboue, E. Ibrahima, B. Delmotte, E. Climent, (2017). Identification of internal properties of fibers and micro-swimmers. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, doi: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/473/2197/20160517.

18. F. Balboa-Usabiaga, B. Delmotte and A . Donev, (2017). Brownian Dynamics of Active Sphere Suspensions Confined Near a No-Slip Boundary. Journal of Chemical Physics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4979494,  ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00474.

19. M. Driscoll*, B. Delmotte*, M. Youssef, S. Saccana, A. Donev, P. Chaikin, (2017). Unstable Fronts and Stable Motile Structures formed by Microrollers, Nature Physics, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3970 , ArXiv: ArXiv:1609.08673.  

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20. F. Balboa-Usabiaga, B. Kallemov, B. Delmotte, A. Pal Singh Balla, B. Griffith and A. Donev, (2016). Hydrodynamics of Suspensions of Passive and Active Rigid Particles: A Rigid Multiblob Approach, Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 11 (2), 217-296: https://doi.org/10.2140/camcos.2016.11.217 ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.0217.

21. B. Delmotte, E. Keaveny, (2015). Simulating Brownian Suspensions with Fluctuating Hydrodynamics, Journal of Chemical Physics, 143, 244109, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4938173, ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02185

22. B. Delmotte, E. Keaveny, F. Plouraboué and E. Climent, (2015). Large-scale Simulation of Steady and Time-dependent Active Suspensions with the Force-Coupling Method, Journal of Computational Physics, 302, 524-547, link: doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2015.09.020

23. B. Delmotte, F. Plouraboué and E. Climent, (2015). A general formulation of Bead Models applied to flexible fibers and active filaments at low Reynolds number, Journal of Computational Physics, 286, 14-27, link: doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2015.01.026

24. B. Delmotte, F. Plouraboué and E. Climent, (2013). Hydrodynamic interactions among large populations of swimming micro-organisms, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 16(sup1), 6-8, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10255842.2013.815881

25. M.C. Rochoux, B. Delmotte, B. Cuenot, S. Ricci, A. Trouvé, (2013). Regional-scale simulations of wildland fire spread informed by real-time flame front observations, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 34 (2), 2641-2647, link: doi:10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.090

26. M.C. Rochoux, B. Cuenot, S. Ricci, A. Trouvé, B. Delmotte, S. Massart, R. Paoli, R. Paugam, (2013). Data assimilation applied to combustion, Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 341 (1), 266-276, link: doi:10.1016/j.crme.2012.10.011

Reports

• "Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulations of Collective in Motion in a Suspension of Spermatozoa", IMFT, July 2012, pdf version: Report

• "Parameter Calibration Using Data Assimilation for Simulation of Forest Fire Spread", CERFACS-University of Maryland, August 2011, pdf version: Report

Keynote Conference Talks

• IUTAM Symposium, "From Stokesian suspension dynamics to particulate flows in turbulence",  Toulouse, August 29-02, 2022

• CECAM Workshop, "Computational methods and tools for complex suspensions", Bilbao, May 23-27, 2022