Search Results - "Schroll, R D"
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Capillary deformations of bendable films
Published in Physical review letters (05-07-2013)“…We address the partial wetting of liquid drops on ultrathin solid sheets resting on a deformable foundation. Considering the membrane limit of sheets that can…”
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Bridging dielectric fluids by light: A ray optics approach
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-08-2008)“…Rayleigh-Plateau instability is known to impose a stability limit for the length of a liquid bridge in weightless conditions. This fundamental limit may be…”
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Nonperturbative model for wrinkling in highly bendable sheets
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (01-06-2012)“…The wrinkled geometry of thin films is known to vary appreciably as the applied stresses exceed their buckling threshold. Here we derive and analyze a minimal,…”
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Liquid transport due to light scattering
Published in Physical review letters (30-03-2007)“…Using experiments and theory, we show that light scattering by inhomogeneities in the index of refraction of a fluid can drive a large-scale flow. The…”
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Generalized synchronization of spatiotemporal chaos in a liquid crystal spatial light modulator
Published in Physical review letters (20-08-2004)“…We demonstrate generalized synchronization in a spatiotemporal chaotic system, a liquid crystal spatial light modulator with optoelectronic feedback…”
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