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On the rectification of oscillatory flows by flexible leaflets in a confined geometry
Omar Abukabsha, Simon Gsell, Martin Brandenbourger
Inspired by biological systems, extensive research has explored how fluid-structure interactions in compliant channels and confined geometries control fluid transport. While local…
Real time monitoring of pressure-induced deformation of PDMS to evaluate pressure distribution in microfluidic channels
Kiran Acharya, Serge Monneret, Martin Brandenbourger +1
Accurate pressure measurements in micrometric channels are essential for a wide range of microfluidic applications. Existing approaches rely on a variety of sensing mechanisms, but…
Unidirectional flow from continuous broken symmetries
Aaron Winn, Justine Parmentier, Eleni Katifori +1
Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinear…
Spontaneous Emergence of Solitary Waves in Active Flow Networks with Elastic Elements
Rodrigo Fernández-Quevedo García, Gonçalo Cruz Antunes, Jens Harting +6
Flow networks are fundamental for understanding systems such as animal and plant vasculature or power distribution grids. These networks can encode, transmit, and transform informa…
Non-reciprocal breathing solitons
Jonas Veenstra, Oleksandr Gamayun, Martin Brandenbourger +4
Breathing solitons consist of a fast beating wave within a compact envelope of stable shape and velocity. They can propagate and carry information and energy in a variety of contex…
Limit cycles turn active matter into robots
Martin Brandenbourger, Colin Scheibner, Jonas Veenstra +2
Active matter composed of energy-generating microscopic constituents is a promising platform to create autonomous functional materials. However, the very presence of these microsco…
Self-oscillation and Synchronisation Transitions in Elasto-Active Structures
Ellen Zheng, Martin Brandenbourger, Louis Robinet +3
The interplay between activity and elasticity often found in active and living systems triggers a plethora of autonomous behaviors ranging from self-assembly and collective motion…
Tuning flow asymmetry with bio-inspired soft leaflets
Martin Brandenbourger, Adrien Dangremont, Rudolf Sprik +1
In Nature, liquids often circulate in channels textured with leaflets, cilia or porous walls that deform with the flow. These soft structures are optimized to passively control flo…
Observation of non-Hermitian topology and its bulk-edge correspondence in an active mechanical metamaterial
Ananya Ghatak, Martin Brandenbourger, Jasper van Wezel +1
Topological edge modes are excitations that are localized at the materials' edges and yet are characterized by a topological invariant defined in the bulk. Such bulk-edge correspon…
Non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials
Martin Brandenbourger, Xander Locsin, Edan Lerner +1
Non-reciprocal transmission of motion is potentially highly beneficial to a wide range of applications, ranging from wave guiding, to shock and vibration damping and energy harvest…
Elastogranular Mechanics: Buckling, Jamming, and Structure Formation
David J. Schunter, Martin Brandenbourger, Sophia Perriseau +1
Confinement of a slender body into a granular array induces stress localization in the geometrically nonlinear structure, and jamming, reordering, and vertical dislocation of the s…
Leidenfrost drops on a heated liquid pool
Laurent Maquet, Benjamin Sobac, Baptiste Darbois-Texier +5
We show that a volatile liquid drop placed at the surface of a non-volatile liquid pool warmer than the boiling point of the drop can experience a Leidenfrost effect even for vanis…
Physics of a toy geyser
Martin Brandenbourger, Stéphane Dorbolo, Baptiste Darbois Texier
A geyser can be reproduced by a toy experiment composed of a water pool located above a water reservoir, the two being connected by a long and narrow tube. When the bottom reservoi…
Electrically charged droplet: Influence of the generator configuration and the nature of the liquid
Martin Brandenbourger, Stephane Dorbolo
We studied how to charge droplets by induction and how to maximize this charge. In order to aim this objective, we developed an innovative device that avoids non-linear effects and…