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Elastic building blocks for confined sheets
Robert D. Schroll, Eleni Katifori, Benny Davidovitch
We study the behavior of thin elastic sheets that are bent and strained under the influence of weak, smooth confinement. We show that the emerging shapes exhibit the coexistence of…
Far From Threshold Buckling Analysis of Thin Films
Benny Davidovitch, Robert D. Schroll, Dominic Vella +2
Thin films buckle easily and form wrinkled states in regions of well defined size. The extent of a wrinkled region is typically assumed to reflect the zone of in-plane compressive…
Impact of a Viscous Liquid Drop
Robert D. Schroll, Christophe Josserand, Stéphane Zaleski +1
We simulate the impact of a viscous liquid drop onto a smooth dry solid surface. As in experiments, when ambient air effects are negligible, impact flattens the falling drop withou…
Laser microfluidics: fluid actuation by light
Jean-Pierre Delville, Matthieu Robert De Saint-Vincent, Robert D. Schroll +6
The development of microfluidic devices is still hindered by the lack of robust fundamental building blocks that constitute any fluidic system. An attractive approach is optical ac…
Liquid Transport Due to Light Scattering
Robert D. Schroll, Régis Wunenburger, Alexis Casner +2
Using experiments and theory, we show that light scattering by inhomogeneities in the index of refraction of a fluid can drive a large-scale flow. The experiment uses a near-critic…