Tag
Active Matter Physics
Active matter systems convert stored energy into mechanical work at the microscale, producing collective dynamics that have no equilibrium analogue. My work on confined active nematics focuses on how defect-vortex coupling drives spontaneous chaotic mixing, an emergent transport mechanism arising purely from the internal stress of the active fluid.
Engineering
Volterra
Covariant active nematics solver built on Cartan. Dimensionally agnostic: any type implementing cartan_core::Manifold serves as the simulation domain. Beris-Edwards equations on arbitrary Riemannian geometries via discrete exterior calculus.
Mermin
k-atic alignment analysis of fluorescence microscopy. Minkowski tensor shape descriptors, multiscale structure tensor fields, topological defect detection via cartan-geo SO(3) holonomy, persistent homology, spatial statistics, and Landau-de Gennes parameter fitting. Outputs calibrated parameters for forward simulation in volterra. 7 crates on crates.io, Python bindings on PyPI.