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Conical defects in growing sheets
Martin Michael Mueller, Martine Ben Amar, Jemal Guven
A growing or shrinking disc will adopt a conical shape, its intrinsic geometry characterized by a surplus angle at the apex. If growth is slow, the cone will find its equilibr…
Instabilities in elastomers and soft tissues
Alain Goriely, Michel Destrade, Martine Ben Amar
Biological soft tissues exhibit elastic properties which can be dramatically different from rubber-type materials (elastomers). To gain a better understanding of the role of consti…
Effective creases and contact angles between membrane domains with high spontaneous curvature
Jean-Baptiste Fournier, Martine Ben Amar
We show that the short-scale elastic distortions that are excited in the vicinity of the joint between different lipidic membrane domains (at a scale of \~10 nm) may produce a "cre…
Inertial effects in the Saffman-Taylor instability
C. Chevalier, M. Ben Amar, D. Bonn +1
For the Saffman-Taylor instability, the inertia of the fluid may become important for large Reynolds numbers Re. We investigate the effects of inertia on the width of the viscous f…
Evaporation of a thin film: diffusion of the vapour and Marangoni instabilities
Eric Sultan, Arezki Boudaoud, Martine Ben Amar
The stability of an evaporating thin liquid film on a solid substrate is investigated within lubrication theory. The heat flux due to evaporation induces thermal gradients; the gen…
Bi-Phasic Vesicles: instability induced by adsorption of proteins
Jean-Marc Allain, Martine Ben Amar
The recent discovery of a lateral organization in cell membranes due to small structures called 'rafts' has motivated a lot of biological and physico-chemical studies. A new experi…