• Crawling, Waving, Spinning : Activity Matters 

      Maitra, Ananyo (2017-12-12)
      This thesis has been concerned with a few problems in systems driven at the scale of particles. The problems dealt with here can be extended and elaborated upon in a variety of ways. In 2 we examine the dynamics of a fluid ...
    • Nonequilibrium Fluctuations In Sedimenting And Self-Propelled Systems 

      Kumar, K Vijay (2013-06-10)
      Equilibrium statistical mechanics has a remarkable property: the steady state probability distribution can be calculated by a procedure independent of the detailed dynamics of the system under consideration. The partition ...