4 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…