3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Basin-volume distributions in monodisperse particle packings -- the soul of memory
Varda F. Hagh, Zhaoning Liu, Sidney R. Nagel
Mechanically stable packings of particles in dimensions lie at the minima of an -dimensional potential energy landscape. Starting from random initial particle positions…
cond-mat.soft2026
The landscape of instabilities versus shear angle in simulations
Chloe W. Lindeman, Sidney R. Nagel
We argue that, in order to appreciate fully how disordered solids fail under sufficiently large strains or thermal noise, a material should be regarded as a network of potentially…
physics.flu-dyn2025
Effect of translational shear on interfacial structure in the viscous fingering instability
Zhaoning Liu, Samar Alqatari, Thomas E. Videbæk +1
We introduce applied shear as a method to control viscous fingering by smoothing the interface between miscible fluids. In the viscous fingering instability, a less viscous fluid d…