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Indentation of a Rigid Sphere into an Elastic Substrate with Surface Tension and Adhesion
Chung-Yuen Hui, Tianshu Liu, Thomas Salez +2
The surface tension of compliant materials such as gels provides resistance to deformation in addition to and sometimes surpassing that due to elasticity. This article studies how…
Approach to universal self-similar attractor for the levelling of thin liquid films
Michael Benzaquen, Paul Fowler, Laetitia Jubin +3
We compare the capillary levelling of a random surface perturbation on a thin polystyrene film with a theoretical study on the two-dimensional capillary-driven thin film equation.…
Wake pattern and wave resistance for anisotropic moving objects
Michael Benzaquen, Alexandre Darmon, Elie Raphaël
We present a theoretical study of gravity waves generated by an anisotropic moving disturbance. We model the moving object by an elliptical pressure field of given aspect ratio $\m…
Viscoelastic effects and anomalous transient levelling exponents in thin films
Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphaël
We study theoretically the profile evolution of a thin viscoelastic film supported onto a no-slip flat substrate. Due to the nonconstant initial curvature at the free surface, ther…
A direct quantitative measure of surface mobility in a glassy polymer
Yu Chai, Thomas Salez, Joshua D. McGraw +4
Thin polymer films have striking dynamical properties that differ from their bulk counterparts. With the simple geometry of a stepped polymer film on a substrate, we probe mobility…
Capillary levelling of a cylindrical hole in a viscous film
Matilda Backholm, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez +2
The capillary levelling of cylindrical holes in viscous polystyrene films was studied using atomic force microscopy as well as quantitative analytical scaling arguments based on th…