Search Results - "Nagel, Sidney R."
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Finite-size scaling at the jamming transition
Published in Physical review letters (27-08-2012)“…We present an analysis of finite-size effects in jammed packings of N soft, frictionless spheres at zero temperature. There is a 1/N correction to the discrete…”
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Two Diverging Length Scales in the Structure of Jammed Packings
Published in Physical review letters (11-09-2018)“…At densities higher than the jamming transition for athermal, frictionless repulsive spheres we find two distinct length scales, both of which diverge as a…”
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Designing allostery-inspired response in mechanical networks
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-03-2017)“…Recent advances in designing metamaterials have demonstrated that global mechanical properties of disordered spring networks can be tuned by selectively…”
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The Jamming Transition and the Marginally Jammed Solid
Published in Annual review of condensed matter physics (10-08-2010)“…When a system jams, it undergoes a transition from a flowing to a rigid state. Despite this important change in the dynamics, the internal structure of the…”
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Stretchable Superhydrophobicity from Monolithic, Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Wrinkles
Published in Nano letters (08-06-2016)“…We report the design of three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical wrinkle substrates that can maintain their superhydrophobicity even after being repeatedly…”
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Ultrafast interference imaging of air in splashing dynamics
Published in Physical review letters (03-10-2011)“…A drop impacting a solid surface with sufficient velocity will emit many small droplets creating a splash. However, splashing is completely suppressed if the…”
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Solids between the mechanical extremes of order and disorder
Published in Nature physics (06-07-2014)“…Jammed systems are typically thought of as being amorphous. Simulations of packings with varying disorder reveal a crossover from crystalline behaviour, which…”
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Viscous to inertial crossover in liquid drop coalescence
Published in Physical review letters (14-03-2011)“…Using an electrical method and high-speed imaging, we probe drop coalescence down to 10 ns after the drops touch. By varying the liquid viscosity over two…”
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Creation of prompt and thin-sheet splashing by varying surface roughness or increasing air pressure
Published in Physical review letters (31-07-2012)“…A liquid drop impacting a solid surface may splash either by emitting a thin liquid sheet that subsequently breaks apart or by promptly ejecting droplets from…”
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The inexorable resistance of inertia determines the initial regime of drop coalescence
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-05-2012)“…Drop coalescence is central to diverse processes involving dispersions of drops in industrial, engineering, and scientific realms. During coalescence, two…”
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The role of rigidity in controlling material failure
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-09-2016)“…We investigate how material rigidity acts as a key control parameter for the failure of solids under stress. In both experiments and simulations, we…”
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Vibrations and diverging length scales near the unjamming transition
Published in Physical review letters (26-08-2005)“…We numerically study the vibrations of jammed packings of particles interacting with finite-range, repulsive potentials at zero temperature. As the packing…”
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Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: the epitome of disorder
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics (01-07-2003)“…We have studied how two- and three-dimensional systems made up of particles interacting with finite range, repulsive potentials jam (i.e., develop a yield…”
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Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit
Published in Physical review letters (11-12-2009)“…We show that the slowing of the dynamics in simulations of several model glass-forming liquids is equivalent to the hard-sphere glass transition in the…”
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Towards the zero-surface-tension limit in granular fingering instability
Published in Nature physics (01-03-2008)“…The finger-like branching pattern that occurs when a less viscous fluid displaces a more viscous one confined between two parallel plates has been widely…”
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Energy loss at propagating jamming fronts in granular gas clusters
Published in Physical review letters (28-10-2013)“…We explore the initial moments of impact between two dense granular clusters in a two-dimensional geometry. The particles are composed of solid CO(2) and are…”
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Fingering versus stability in the limit of zero interfacial tension
Published in Nature communications (27-10-2014)“…The invasion of one fluid into another of higher viscosity in a quasi-two dimensional geometry typically produces complex fingering patterns. Because…”
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Still water: dead zones and collimated ejecta from the impact of granular jets
Published in Physical review letters (16-10-2013)“…When a dense granular jet hits a target, it forms a large dead zone and ejects a highly collimated conical sheet with a well-defined opening angle. Using…”
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Memory formation in matter
Published in Reviews of modern physics (26-07-2019)“…Memory formation in matter is a theme of broad intellectual relevance; it sits at the interdisciplinary crossroads of physics, biology, chemistry, and computer…”
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Breakup of air bubbles in water: memory and breakdown of cylindrical symmetry
Published in Physical review letters (06-10-2006)“…Using high-speed video, we have studied air bubbles detaching from an underwater nozzle. As a bubble distorts, it forms a thin neck which develops a singular…”
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