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STL-to-Stokeslet Computation of Mobility Tensors and Sedimentation Dynamics for Shaped Particles
Wenting Cheng, Tiago Pernambuco, Thomas A. Witten +2
Sedimentation is extremely common in nature, occurring throughout the atmosphere and oceans, and in every laboratory centrifuge. The shape and mass distribution of a particle uniqu…
Effective synchronization amid noise-induced chaos
Benjamin Sorkin, Thomas A. Witten
Two remote agents with synchronized clocks may use them to act in concert and communicate. This necessitates some means of creating and maintaining synchrony. One method, not requi…
Shear thickening in suspensions of particles with dynamic brush layers
Hojin Kim, Michael van der Naald, Finn A. Braaten +3
Control of frictional interactions among liquid-suspended particles has led to tunable, strikingly non-Newtonian rheology via the formation of strong flow constraints as particles…
Universal wrinkling of freestanding atomically thin films
Jaehyung Yu, Colin Scheibner, Ce Liang +3
Atomically thin films, like transition metal dichalcogenides, can now be synthesized at wafer scale, achieving the same extreme aspect ratio (~10^8) that a sheet of paper would hav…
Trading particle shape with fluid symmetry: on the mobility matrix in 3D chiral fluids
Tali Khain, Michel Fruchart, Colin Scheibner +2
Chiral fluids - such as fluids under rotation or a magnetic field as well as synthetic and biological active fluids - flow in a different way than ordinary ones. Due to symmetries…
Predicting tensorial electrophoretic effects in asymmetric colloids
Aaron J. Mowitz, T. A. Witten
We formulate a numerical method for predicting the tensorial linear response of a rigid, asymmetrically charged body to an applied electric field. This prediction requires calculat…