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Van der Waals interaction between a moving nano-cylinder and a liquid thin film
René Ledesma-Alonso, Elie Raphaël, Thomas Salez +2
We study the static and dynamic interaction between a horizontal cylindrical nano-probe and a thin liquid film. The effects of the physical and geometrical parameters, with a speci…
Molecular dynamics simulation of the capillary leveling of viscoelastic polymer films
Ioannis Tanis, Hendrik Meyer, Thomas Salez +3
Surface tension-driven flow techniques have recently emerged as an efficient means of shedding light into the rheology of thin polymer films. Motivated by experimental and theoreti…
Elastohydrodynamic wake and wave resistance
Maxence Arutkin, René Ledesma-Alonso, Thomas Salez +1
The dynamics of a thin elastic sheet lubricated by a narrow layer of liquid is relevant to various situations and length scales. In the continuity of our previous work on viscous w…
Elastocapillary bending of microfibers around liquid droplets
Rafael D. Schulman, Amir Porat, Kathleen Charlesworth +4
We report on the elastocapillary deformation of flexible microfibers in contact with liquid droplets. A fiber is observed to bend more as the size of the contacting droplet is incr…
Stress concentration in periodically rough hertzian contact: Hertz to soft-flat-punch transition
Rene Ledesma-Alonso, Elie Raphael, Liliane Leger +2
We report on the elastic contact between a spherical lens and a patterned substrate, composed of an hexagonal lattice of cylindrical pillars. The stress field and the size of the c…
Cooperative strings in glassy nanoparticles
Maxence Arutkin, Elie Raphaël, James A. Forrest +1
Motivated by recent experimental results on glassy polymer nanoparticles, we develop a minimal theoretical framework for the glass transition in spherical confinement. This is acco…