Search Results - "Leshansky, A. M."

Optimal Length of Low Reynolds Number Nanopropellers by Walker, D, Kübler, M, Morozov, K. I, Fischer, P, Leshansky, A. M

“…Locomotion in fluids at the nanoscale is dominated by viscous drag. One efficient propulsion scheme is to use a weak rotating magnetic field that drives a…”
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Chaos and threshold for irreversibility in sheared suspensions by Pine, D. J, Brady, J. F, Gollub, J. P, Leshansky, A. M

“…Systems governed by time reversible equations of motion often give rise to irreversible behaviour. The transition from reversible to irreversible behaviour is…”
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Undulatory locomotion of finite filaments: lessons from Caenorhabditis elegans by Berman, R S, Kenneth, O, Sznitman, J, Leshansky, A M

“…Undulatory swimming is a widespread propulsion strategy adopted by many small-scale organisms including various single-cell eukaryotes and nematodes. In this…”
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Tunable nonlinear viscoelastic "focusing" in a microfluidic device by Leshansky, A M, Bransky, A, Korin, N, Dinnar, U

“…In this Letter we describe a novel method for tunable viscoelastic focusing of particles flowing in a microchannel. It is proposed that some elasticity,…”
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Obstructed breakup of slender drops in a microfluidic T junction by Leshansky, A M, Afkhami, S, Jullien, M-C, Tabeling, P

“…In this Letter we present a theoretical analysis of the droplet breakup with "permanent obstruction" in a microfluidic T junction [M.-C. Jullien et al., Phys…”
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Flexible helical yarn swimmers by Zakharov, A. P., Leshansky, A. M., Pismen, L. M.

“… We investigate the motion of a flexible Stokesian flagellar swimmer realised as a yarn made of two intertwined elastomer fibres, one active, that can…”
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Enhanced low-Reynolds-number propulsion in heterogeneous viscous environments by Leshansky, A M

“…It has been known for some time that some microorganisms can swim faster in high-viscosity gel-forming polymer solutions. These gel-like media come to mimic…”
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A frictionless microswimmer by Leshansky, A M, Kenneth, O, Gat, O, Avron, J E

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Controlling Marangoni flow directionality: patterning nano-materials using sessile and sliding volatile droplets by Abo Jabal, M., Homede, E., Pismen, L. M., Haick, H., Leshansky, A. M.

“…Controlling the droplet shape and the corresponding deposition patterns is pivotal in a wide range of processes and applications based on surface phenomena,…”
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On the influence of mass transfer on coalescence of bubbles by Leshansky, A.M.

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Dynamics of Thin Liquid Films with Nonsoluble Surfactants:  Weakly Nonlinear Analysis by Rubinstein, B. Y, Leshansky, A. M

“…Amplitude equations for Turing instabilities for two models describing dynamics of thin liquid films with nonsoluble surfactants are derived. Analytical…”
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Spontaneous Interaction of Drops, Bubbles and Particles in Viscous Fluid Driven by Capillary Inhomogeneities by Lavrenteva, O. M, Leshansky, A. M, Berejnov, V, Nir, A

“…Spontaneous interaction of drops, bubbles, or particles in a suspension occurs when the continuous and dispersed phases are not in thermodynamic equilibrium…”
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Do small swimmers mix the ocean? by Leshansky, A M, Pismen, L M

“…In this communication we address some hydrodynamic aspects of recently proposed drift mechanism of biogenic mixing in the ocean [K. Katija and J. O. Dabiri,…”
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Efficiency of cargo towing by a microswimmer by Raz, O, Leshansky, A M

“…We study the properties of an arbitrary microswimmer towing a passive load through a viscous liquid. The simple close-form expression for the dragging…”
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Nonlinear rupture of thin liquid films on solid surfaces by Leshansky, A M, Rubinstein, B Y

“…In this letter we investigate the rupture instability of thin liquid films by means of a bifurcation analysis in the vicinity of the short-scale instability…”
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Actin-based propulsion of a microswimmer by Leshansky, A M

“…A simple hydrodynamic model of actin-based propulsion of microparticles in dilute cell-free cytoplasmic extracts is presented. Under the basic assumption that…”
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Rupture of thin liquid films: generalization of weakly nonlinear theory by Rubinstein, B Y, Leshansky, A M

“…In this paper, we investigate the rupture dynamics of thin liquid films driven by intermolecular forces via weakly nonlinear bifurcation analysis. The dynamic…”
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Enhanced low-Reynolds-number propulsion in heterogeneous viscous environments by Leshansky, A. M

“…Phys. Rev. E 80, 051911 (2009) It has been known for some time that some microorganisms can swim faster in high-viscosity gel-forming polymer solutions. These…”
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Do small swimmers mix the ocean? by Leshansky, A. M, Pismen, L. M

“…In this communication we address some hydrodynamic aspects of recently revisited drift mechanism of biogenic mixing in the ocean (Katija and Dabiri, Nature…”
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Flexible helical yarn swimmers by Zakharov, A. P, Leshansky, A. M, Pismen, L. M

“…We investigate the motion of a flexible Stokesean flagellar swimmer realised as a yarn made of two intertwined elastomer fibres, one active, that can…”
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