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Two-phase flow in a chemically active porous medium
Alexandre Darmon, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez +1
We study the problem of the transformation of a given reactant species into an immiscible product species, as they flow through a chemically active porous medium. We derive the equ…
Approach to universal self-similar attractor for the levelling of thin liquid films
Michael Benzaquen, Paul Fowler, Laetitia Jubin +3
We compare the capillary levelling of a random surface perturbation on a thin polystyrene film with a theoretical study on the two-dimensional capillary-driven thin film equation.…
Wake pattern and wave resistance for anisotropic moving objects
Michael Benzaquen, Alexandre Darmon, Elie Raphaël
We present a theoretical study of gravity waves generated by an anisotropic moving disturbance. We model the moving object by an elliptical pressure field of given aspect ratio $\m…
Viscoelastic effects and anomalous transient levelling exponents in thin films
Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphaël
We study theoretically the profile evolution of a thin viscoelastic film supported onto a no-slip flat substrate. Due to the nonconstant initial curvature at the free surface, ther…
A direct quantitative measure of surface mobility in a glassy polymer
Yu Chai, Thomas Salez, Joshua D. McGraw +4
Thin polymer films have striking dynamical properties that differ from their bulk counterparts. With the simple geometry of a stepped polymer film on a substrate, we probe mobility…
Capillary levelling of a cylindrical hole in a viscous film
Matilda Backholm, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez +2
The capillary levelling of cylindrical holes in viscous polystyrene films was studied using atomic force microscopy as well as quantitative analytical scaling arguments based on th…