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most citedFlow birefringence of cellulose nanocrystal suspensions in three-dimensional flow fields: revisiting the stress-optic law

17 citations · 39 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Apparent Breakdown of the Stress-Optic Rule in Rigid-Rod Suspensions: A Stress-Partitioning Interpretation

William Kai Alexander Worby, Yuto Yokoyama, Misa Kawaguchi +1

A fundamental problem in the field of anisotropic macromolecular materials concerns how the flow-induced orientational order connects microscopic structure to macroscopic rheologic…

physics.med-ph2026

Time-Resolved Stress Analysis of Tissue Simulants During Needle-Free Jet Injection

Kohei Yamagata, Prasad Sonar, Kazuhiro Terai +2

Needle-free jet injection generates transient internal stress fields that can influence tissue deformation, pain-related stimulation, and cellular-level mechanical responses. Howev…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Full-component reconstruction of three-dimensional fluid stress tensors

Shunsuke Kumagai, Shun Miyatake, Ryusuke Cho +5

Forces govern how fluids deform biological tissues, regulate cardiovascular function, and determine the performance and failure of soft materials. Recent advances in flow birefring…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Penetration of impact-induced jets into skin-simulating materials

Kohei Yamagata, Yuto Yokoyama, Shoto Sekiguchi +3

This study compares the penetration characteristics of impact-induced jets with those of laser-induced jets, focusing on the underlying penetration mechanism rather than device per…

cond-mat.soft2026

Interfacial dynamics induced by impacts across rigid and soft substrates

Ishin Kikuchi, Hiroya Watanabe, Yuto Yokoyama +2

We investigate impact-induced gas-liquid interfacial dynamics through experiments in which a liquid-filled container impacts substrates with elastic moduli from MPa to…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Extending flow birefringence analysis to combined extensional-shear flows via Jeffery-Hamel flow measurements

Miu Kobayashi, William Kai Alexander Worby, Misa Kawaguchi +3

This study investigates the relationship between phase retardation and strain rates in combined extensional-shear flows using the Jeffery-Hamel flow formalism, which yields an anal…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Reconstruction of three-dimensional fluid stress field via photoelasticity using physics-informed convolutional encoder-decoder

Daichi Igarashi, Shunsuke Kumagai, Yuto Yokoyama +3

Measuring stress fields in fluids and soft materials is crucial in various fields such as mechanical engineering, medicine, and bioengineering. However, conventional methods that c…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Flow birefringence measurement in a radial Hele-Shaw cell considering three-dimensional effects

Misa Kawaguchi, William Kai Alexander Worby, Yuto Yokoyama +3

Flow birefringence measurement is an emerging technique for visualizing stress fields in fluid flows. This study investigates flow birefringence in the steady radial Hele-Shaw flow…

cond-mat.soft2024

Droplet impact on elastic substrates: force scaling crossover

Yuto Yokoyama, Hirokazu Maruoka, Yoshiyuki Tagawa

Droplet impacts are fundamental to fluid-structure interactions, shaping processes from erosion to bioprinting. While previous scaling laws have provided insights into droplet dyna…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 1 cited

Experimental study on the relationship between extensional and shear rheology of low-viscosity power-law fluids

Yuzuki Matsumoto, Misa Kawaguchi, Yoshiyuki Tagawa

This paper investigates the relationship between extensional and shear viscosity of low-viscosity power-law fluids. We show the first experimental evidence of the conditions satisf…

cond-mat.soft2024

Examination of flow birefringence induced by the shear components along the optical axis using a parallel-plate-type rheometer

William Kai Alexander Worby, Kento Nakamine, Yuto Yokoyama +2

In this study, the concept of rheo-optics is applied that explores the flow birefringence caused by stress components along the optical axis of the camera since it is often overloo…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 17 cited

Flow birefringence of cellulose nanocrystal suspensions in three-dimensional flow fields: revisiting the stress-optic law

Kento Nakamine, Yuto Yokoyama, William Kai Alexander Worby +2

This study systematically investigates the flow birefringence of cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) suspensions. The aim is to clarify the importance of the stress component along the cam…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Optimal standoff distance for a highly focused microjet penetrating a soft material

Daichi Igarashi, Kento Kimura, Nanami Endo +3

A needle-free injector using a highly focused microjet has the potential to minimize the invasiveness of drug delivery. In this study, the jet penetration depth in a soft material-…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 13 cited

High-speed photoelastic tomography for axisymmetric stress fields in a soft material: temporal evolution of all stress components

Yuto Yokoyama, Sayaka Ichihara, Yoshiyuki Tagawa

This study presents a novel approach for reconstructing all stress components of the dynamic axisymmetric fields of a soft material using photoelastic tomography (PT) and a high-sp…

physics.flu-dyn2023

The effects of cavitation position on the velocity of a laser-induced microjet extracted using explainable artificial intelligence

Daichi Igarashi, Jingzu Yee, Yuto Yokoyama +2

The control of the velocity of a high-speed laser-induced microjet is crucial in applications such as needle-free injection. Previous studies have indicated that the jet velocity i…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Correlation between morphological evolution of splashing drop and exerted impact force revealed by interpretation of explainable artificial intelligence

Jingzu Yee, Daichi Igarashi, Pradipto +2

This study reveals a possible correlation between splashing morphology and the normalized impact force exerted by an impacting drop on a solid surface. This finding is obtained fro…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 7 cited

Prediction of the morphological evolution of a splashing drop using an encoder-decoder

Jingzu Yee, Daichi Igarashi, Shun Miyatake +1

The impact of a drop on a solid surface is an important phenomenon that has various implications and applications. However, the multiphase nature of this phenomenon causes complica…