2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Stochastic elastohydrodynamics of soft valves
Mengfei He, Sungkyu Cho, Gianna Dafflisio +2
Soft valves serve to modulate and rectify flows in complex vasculatures across the tree of life, e.g. in the heart of every human reading this. Here we consider a minimal physical…
physics.flu-dyn2025
Controlling Droplets at the Tips of Fibers
Mengfei He, Samay Hulikal, Marianna Marquardt +5
Many complex wetting behaviors of fibrous materials are rooted in the behaviors of individual droplets attached to pairs of fibers. Here, we study the splitting of a droplet held b…