3 papers
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…
q-bio.PE2025
Functional bottlenecks can emerge from non-epistatic underlying traits
Anna Ottavia Schulte, Samar Alqatari, Saverio Rossi +1
Protein fitness landscapes frequently exhibit epistasis, where the effect of a mutation depends on the genetic context in which it occurs, i.e., the rest of the protein sequence. E…
cond-mat.soft2024
Epistatic pathways in evolvable mechanical networks
Samar Alqatari, Sidney Nagel
An elastic spring network is an example of evolvable matter. It can be pruned to couple separated pairs of nodes so that when a strain is applied to one of them, the other responds…