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most citedHybrid Surface Patterns Mimicking the Design of the Adhesive Toe Pad of Tree Frog

162 citations

13 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds

Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer

Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, many large migratory bird species form distinctly ordered V…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

A flat-band perspective on the boson peak in amorphous solids

Shivam Mahajan, Long-Zhou Huang, Cunyuan Jiang +4

The boson peak is a characteristic anomaly of amorphous solids broadly defined as a low-energy excess in the density of states and heat capacity compared to the textbook prediction…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 4 cited

Accurate Modeling of Interfacial Thermal Transport in van der Waals Heterostructures via Hybrid Machine Learning and Registry-Dependent Potentials

Wenwu Jiang, Hekai Bu, Ting Liang +4

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable thermal anisotropy due to their strong intralayer covalent bonding and weak interlayer van der Waals (vdW…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 31 cited

Moiré-Driven Interfacial Thermal Transport in Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Wenwu Jiang, Ting Liang, Hekai Bu +2

Cross-plane thermal conductivity in homogeneous transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibits a strong dependence on twist angle, originating from atomic reconstruction within m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

Atomistic mechanisms of dynamics in a two-dimensional dodecagonal quasicrystal

Kun Zhao, Matteo Baggioli, Wen-Sheng Xu +2

Quasicrystals have been observed in a variety of materials ranging from metal alloys to block copolymers. However, their structural and dynamical properties cannot be readily descr…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Vortex breakdown in the shear-driven flow in a rectangular cavity

H. Wang, X. Yu, S. T. Chan +3

The vortex dynamics of laminar flow past a rectangular cavity is investigated using simulations and experiments. The flow is three-dimensional and characterized by a large, dominan…