23 citations
3 papers
cond-mat.soft2023★ 13 cited
Effects of Asymmetric Cooling and Surface Wettability on the Orientation of the Freezing Tip
Anton Starostin, Vladimir Strelnikov, Leonid A. Dombrovsky +3
Freezing of water droplets placed on the bare and superhydrophobic surfaces of polymer wedges are studied both experimentally and computationally. Two-dimensional numerical calcula…
cs.MA2020
Disturbances in Influence of a Shepherding Agent is More Impactful than Sensorial Noise During Swarm Guidance
Hung The Nguyen, Matthew Garratt, Lam Thu Bui +1
The guidance of a large swarm is a challenging control problem. Shepherding offers one approach to guide a large swarm using a few shepherding agents (sheepdogs). While noise is an…
cond-mat.soft2017★ 23 cited
Self-Propelling Rotator Driven by Soluto-Capillary Marangoni Flows
Mark Frenkel, Gene Whyman, Evgeny Shulzinger +2
The self-propelled, longstanding rotation of the polymer tubing containing camphor continuing for dozens of hours is reported. The rotator is driven by the solutocapillary Marangon…