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Revisiting creeping viscoelastic cross-slot flow: Global linear stability and structural sensitivity analyses
Kun Zhang, Zhanwen Wang, Lailai Zhu
The viscoelastic instability of cross-slot flow was first observed experimentally almost half a century ago and reproduced numerically two decades ago, yet its physical origin rema…
Theoretical framework for designing phase change material systems
Min Li, Lailai Zhu
Phase change materials (PCMs) hold considerable promise for thermal energy storage applications. However, designing a PCM system to meet specific performance presents a formidable…
Colloidal Magnus effect in polymer solutions
Marco De Corato, Kun Zhang, Lailai Zhu
Rotating particles moving in fluids undergo a transverse migration via the inertia-induced Magnus effect. This phenomenon vanishes at colloidal scales because inertia is negligible…
Enabling microrobotic chemotaxis via reset-free hierarchical reinforcement learning
Tongzhao Xiong, Zhaorong Liu, Chong Jin Ong +1
Microorganisms have evolved diverse strategies to propel in viscous fluids, navigate complex environments, and exhibit taxis in response to stimuli. This has inspired the developme…
Self-diffusiophoretic propulsion of a spheroidal particle in a shear-thinning fluid
Guangpu Zhu, Brandon van Gogh, Lailai Zhu +2
Shear-thinning viscosity is a non-Newtonian behaviour that active particles often encounter in biological fluids such as blood and mucus. The fundamental question of how this ubiqu…