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Designing phoretic micro- and nano-swimmers
R. Golestanian, T. B. Liverpool, A. Ajdari
Small objects can swim by generating around them fields or gradients which in turn induce fluid motion past their surface by phoretic surface effects. We quantify for arbitrary swi…
Jamming, hysteresis and oscillation in scalar models for shear thickening
D. A. Head, A. Ajdari, M. E. Cates
We investigate shear thickening and jamming within the framework of a family of spatially homogeneous, scalar rheological models. These are based on the `soft glassy rheology' mode…
Rheological instability in a simple shear thickening model
D. A. Head, A. Ajdari, M. E. Cates
We study the strain response to steady imposed stress in a spatially homogeneous, scalar model for shear thickening, in which the local rate of yielding Γ(l) of mesoscopic `elastic…
Effective Area-Elasticity and Tension of Micro-manipulated Membranes
J. -B. Fournier, A. Ajdari, L. Peliti
We evaluate the effective Hamiltonian governing, at the optically resolved scale, the elastic properties of micro-manipulated membranes. We identify floppy, entropic-tense and stre…
Casimir Torques between Anisotropic Boundaries in Nematic Liquid Crystals
R. Golestanian, A. Ajdari, J. -B. Fournier
Fluctuation-induced interactions between anisotropic objects immersed in a nematic liquid crystal are shown to depend on the relative orientation of these objects. The resulting lo…
Averaging rheological quantities in descriptions of soft glassy materials
Francois Lequeux, Armand Ajdari
Many mean-field models have been introduced to describe the mechanical behavior of glassy materials. They often rely on averages performed over distributions of elements or states.…