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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…