4 papers
Leveraging viscous peeling in soft actuators and reconfigurable microchannel networks
Lior Salem, Benny Gamus, Yizhar Or +1
The research fields of microfluidics and soft robotics both involve complex small-scale internal channel networks, embedded within a solid structure. This work examines leveraging…
Forced motion of a cylinder within a liquid-filled elastic tube
Amit Vurgaft, Shai B. Elbaz, Amir D. Gat
This work analyzes the viscous flow and elastic deformation created by the forced axial motion of a rigid cylinder within an elastic liquid-filled tube. The examined configuration…
Gaseous viscous peeling of linearly elastic substrates
Shai B. Elbaz, Hila Jacob, Amir D. Gat
We study pressure-driven propagation of gas into a micron-scale gap between two linearly elastic substrates. Applying the lubrication approximation, the flow-field is governed by t…
Preventing Buckling of Slender Cylindrical Structures by Internal Viscous Flows
Max Linshits, Amir D. Gat
Viscous flows within an elastic structure apply stress on the solid-liquid interface. The stress-field created by the viscous flow can be utilized to counter stress created by exte…