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Vatsal Sanjay

@comphy-lab.org
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Fluid dynamicist | Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Durham University | ex-PoF (Univ. Twente) | IITR alum | soft-matter & non‑Newtonian flows (drops, bubbles, jets, sheets) | #FluidDynamics #SoftMatter #Drops #Bubbles #DNS

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Stefan Köstler @stefankoestler2025.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨New Preprint with @zwickergroup.bsky.social ! Phase-separated condensates 🫧 often encounter compositional gradients. We show that these gradients generically lead to surface-tension-driven propulsion even in the absence of surfactants. 📃 arxiv.org/abs/2609.24529
Droplet moving in a chemical gradient.
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 28/09/2026
At first glance, the dune field of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in northeastern Brazil looks like a desert. But this area's rainfall tops 50 inches a year, exceeding Seattle's typical amount. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=33887
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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔬 Fluid Inspirations #7 Theme: Transport and turbulent mixing Experimental Quantification of Airborne Odor Plumes. 🔗 gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd... Source: APS Gallery of Fluid Motion 2025 – Video V041 #TransportPhenomena #TurbulenceResearch #FlowVisualization #AerosolScience #FluidMechanics
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Gallery of Fluid Motion
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 21/09/2026
Drops driven by surface tension: self-propulsion and radial migration (youtu.be/LOauAXpUetc) Surface-tension gradients set liquid drops in motion. These two simulations show how the motion changes when the drops generate the gradients themselves or move in an imposed external field.
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Drops driven by surface tension: self-propulsion and radial migration
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Physics Magazine @physicsmagazine.aps.org · 21/09/2026
🌀 A tabletop experiment that uses a classical water vortex provides the first direct observation of Kelvin-wave turbulence, confirming a decades-old theory of how turbulence decays in quantum fluids. Read more: go.aps.org/4yGa4So
Numerical simulation of a quantized vortex line, shown as a wavy red-and-blue filament with helical, corkscrew-like undulations, surrounded by faint gray circular patterns representing sound excitations radiating outward.
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 21/09/2026
Wildfires can generate their own thunderstorms through pyrocumulonimbus clouds. These clouds can have an outsized impact on the stratosphere, too, injecting smoke and particulates that can linger for years to come. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=33880
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 07/09/2026
When a heavier fluid sits atop a lighter one, the interface between them can be unstable. This means that even a very slight disturbance will be enough to cause fingers of dense (dark) fluid to sink while fingers of the lighter (white) fluid rise. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=12166
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 01/09/2026
New images from our most powerful solar telescope have finally revealed a phenomenon that's long been predicted: Kelvin-Helmholtz waves on the Sun's photosphere. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=32451
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 28/08/2026
Sperm whales like to nap under the water and away from the waves. They seem to do this in a vertical, head-up orientation. But how do they keep from bobbing up? fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=32403
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 29/08/2026
This timelapse from photographer Mike Olbinski shows a supercell thunderstorm that developed over Colorado and headed to Nebraska. The churning convection of the early storm makes for a dramatic backdrop to stormcloud's growing rotation. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=30985
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 31/08/2026
We're most familiar with the bright, forking lightning bolts that stretch from thunderstorms toward the ground, but there are even more types of lightning. Pictured here is a gigantic jet, a relatively recently-identified atmospheric phenomenon. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=32012
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 27/07/2026
Drops and bubbles both approach a finite-time fluid singularity as they pinch off. Add a little polymer, and the apparent symmetry breaks: the drop arrests into a thread, while the bubble still pinches. doi.org/10.1103/5sp3... @durham.ac.uk @durhamphysics.bsky.social @poftwente.bsky.social
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 23/01/2026
@durhamphysics.bsky.social Welcome to @bsky.app ❤️
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New paper by Jamie McLauchlan, working with Anton Souslov in Cambridge, and Jim Walker and Jonathan Reid in Bristol (and others, including us) - with a very cool combination of state-of-the-art experiments with theory: what happens when aerosol droplets hit surfaces? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Why tiny droplets stick or bounce: The physics of speed and size
When a droplet of liquid the size of a grain of icing sugar hits a water-repelling surface, like plastics or certain plant leaves, it can meet one of two fates: stick or bounce. Until now, scientists ...
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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Watch the never-boring Pepijn Hoekstra explaining our work on #clogging from our labs! @utwente.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/ZYHiE...
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Waarom wordt er altijd zo gedrongen bij de uitgang van een festival? #HoeZitUT?
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Physics of Fluids @ UTwente @poftwente.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jochem Meijer for winning the KIVI Hoogendoorn Fluid Mechanics Award 2024! His thesis "Particles, drops, and bubbles in gradient fields" was recognized as the best PhD thesis of 2023-24. Supervised by @detleflohse.bsky.social 👏 #FluidMechanics #PhD​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 24/04/2025
@jnandeep.bsky.social (@poftwente.bsky.social) discussing his master thesis project on singularities with surfactants at the Max Planck meeting. How do surfactants influence coalescence of sessile drops? Teaser talk as Jnan explores the different dynamics across the Peclet-Marangoni parameter space
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Harris Lab @fluiddanamics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Introducing CyberDiver! This new untethered robotic device is capable of actively controlling impact forces and splash dynamics during water entry. arxiv.org/abs/2503.20702 Design source files: github.com/harrislab-br... Work led by #harrislab PhD student John.
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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This very cool paper, and Carl's very nice short thread describing the value of basic research in biology, may be of interest to @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @oneofmanychris.bsky.social and others.
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 26/03/2025
So inspiring to hear my mentor, Detlef Lohse (@poftwente.bsky.social), share his scientific journey in this @thelhseries.bsky.social! His thoughts on curiosity, mentorship, and the "puzzle solving" joy of science resonate deeply. A must-watch! Always so much to learn. bit.ly/3DXBixh
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"Living Histories". Detlef Lohse | #TheLivingHistoriesSeries
The Living Histories series: https://tinyurl.com/TheLHSeries Very brief "trajectory talks" on personal histories leading to the becoming of biological physicists / quantitative biologists / neuroscientists / mathematicians/ complexity scientists. Series concept: Srividya Iyer-Biswas Series organizers: Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Tapa Bhattacharjee, Jasmine Nirody, and Charlie Wright Series website: https://tinyurl.com/TheLHSeries
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Happy birthday to Pierre-Simon Laplace, the *actual* father of so called "Bayesian" Inference. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-...
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Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia
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Alban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Gallery of Soft Matter 2025 @apsdsoft.bsky.social has some amazing entries this year. Check them out here: engage.aps.org/dsoft/galler.... Make sure to vote! Not sure about the deadline, but there’s a QR code at the DSOFT table with all the details.
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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📣 Heads up! During 2025 #BiophysicsWeek the Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup is hosting a Webinar about “Milestones and Future Directions” in our field! It’s intended to be pedagogically accessible, and if you don’t mind me also presenting, then please consider signing up and logging in! 🧪🧬
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 13/03/2025
FRIDAY - MARCH 14, 2025 Albert Einstein’s Birthday (1879) Also born on Pi-Day: Steph Curry, Simone Biles, and Billy Crystal
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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · 12/03/2025
Theo Jansen's Strandbeests are massive, wind-powered kinetic sculptures designed to roam Dutch beaches. Conceived as a way to kick up sand that would replenish nearby dunes, the beests have grown into a decades-long obsession for the artist. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=23401
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Alban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles?
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 13/02/2025
The @ec-euclid.bsky.social mission to map part of the Universe has made a fascinating new discovery 💫 Our scientists are part of the team analysing the latest images from space 🔭 Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/bdze5xcy #DUresearch #DUinspire @esa.int #Einstein
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Wei Wang (汪巍) @wwang721.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Confinement, Jamming, and Adhesion in Cancer Cells Dissociating from a Collectively Invading Strand, W. Wang, R. A. Law, E. P. Ipiña, K. Konstantopoulos, and B. A. Camley, PRX Life 3 (2025) 🎉 go.aps.org/41xXR4N #Biophysics #Cancer #Jamming #CollectiveBehavior #Mechanobiology #SoftMatter #Metastasis
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It was fun to uncover this story—bridging microbial physiology, biological pattern formation, & active matter physics. The results may even have implications for controlling microbes in applications. We'd love your feedback. Please report/share with whoever might be interested! [8/8]
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Many biological fluids are polymer solutions, whose viscoelasticity can enhance cell swimming and promote large-scale mixing. We showed that the core-shell organization also arises in polymer solutions, but with fascinating additional flow fluctuations. [7/8]
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We then developed a biophysical model describing this interplay quantitatively. The model recapitulates the experiments, and also yields criteria for predicting the different ways in which confined bacterial populations self-organize under different conditions. [6/8]
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Cells consume O2, creating a gradient that alters motility: (i) They move up the gradient toward the droplet boundary via aerotaxis, & (ii) They stop swimming in the anoxic droplet core and accumulate. These motility variations in turn reshape O2 fluxes. A feedback loop! [5/8]
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
By simultaneously measuring cell distributions, oxygen concentration, and swimming-generated fluid flow, we figured out that this spatial organization is driven by the interplay between cell metabolism-generated oxygen gradients and collective motility. [4/8]
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Surprisingly, when the droplets are big and concentrated, the cells self-organize into a concentrated inner "core" of immotile cells surrounded by a more dilute outer "shell" of highly motile cells. (See movie in 1st tweet.) In some cases, the core shrinks and disappears. [3/8]
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Bacteria often inhabit confined spaces, such as biological tissues/gels & soils/sediments, where metabolites are scarce. What influence does confinement have on a population of motile bacteria? We addressed this question by studying quasi 2D droplets of swimming E. coli. [2/8]
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Babak Vajdi Hokmabad @babakvh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Excited to release our latest work: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥 Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 25/02/2025
Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
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Science under threat | Royal Society
The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 24/02/2025
To get an executive summary, have a look at our blog post: blogs.comphy-lab.org/Blog/2025-JF... and/or an `AI` generated general summary at bit.ly/4ifVrxg
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2025-JFM-viscous-drop-impact - CoMPhy-Lab blogs
The role of viscosity on drop impact forces on non-wetting surfaces: From Raindrops to Inkjet Printing When a liquid drop hits a surface, the impact creates fascinating fluid dynamics that are crucia…
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 22/02/2025
📢 Checkout our work in J. Fluid Mech. (bit.ly/3QuxMgE) on how viscosity alters drop-impact forces. Together with Bin Zhang, Cunjing Lv, & Detlef Lohse. The first and second force peaks emerge from distinct flow mechanisms—one at impact, another at take-off. @poftwente.bsky.social bit.ly/4gUvD8P
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[SM1]: The role of viscosity on drop impact forces
The case shown here is We = 40, Oh = 0.0025. Paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.03012 Full description: Comparison of the drop impact force $F(t)$ obtained from experiments and simulations for the three typical cases with impact velocity $V_0 = 1.2\,\si{\meter}/\si{\second}, 0.97\,\si{\meter}/\si{\second}, 0.96\,\si{\meter}/\si{\second}$, diameter $D_0 = 2.05\,\si{\milli\meter}, 2.52\,\si{\milli\meter}, 2.54\,\si{\milli\meter}$, surface tension $\gamma = 72\,\si{\milli\newton}/\si{\meter}, 61\,\si{\milli\newton}/\si{\meter}, 61\,\si{\milli\newton}/\si{\meter}$ and viscosity $\eta_d = 1\,\si{\milli\pascal\second}, 25.3\,\si{\milli\pascal\second}, 80.2\,\si{\milli\pascal\second}$. These parameter give $Oh = 0.0025, 0.06, 0.2$ and $We = 40$. For the three cases, the two peak amplitudes, $F_1/(\rho_dV_0^2D_0^2) \approx$ 0.82, 0.92, 0.99 at $t_1 \approx 0.03\sqrt{\rho_dD_0^3/\gamma}$ and $F_2/(\rho_dV_0^2D_0^2) \approx$ 0.37, 0.337, 0.1 at $t_2 \approx 0.42\sqrt{\rho_dD_0^3/\gamma}$, characterize the inertial shock from impact and the Worthington jet before takeoff, respectively. The drop reaches the maximum spreading at $t_{\text{max}}$ when it momentarily stops and retracts until $0.8\sqrt{\rho_dD_0^3/\gamma}$ when the drop takes off ($F = 0$). The black and gray dashed lines in panel (a) mark $F = 0$ and the resolution $F = 0.5\,\si{\milli\newton}$ of our piezoelectric force transducer, respectively. We stress the excellent agreement between experiments and simulations without any free parameters. The left part of each numerical snapshot shows (on a $\log_{10}$ scale) the dimensionless local viscous dissipation function $\tilde{\xi}_\eta \equiv \xi_\eta D_0/\left(\rho_dV_0^3\right) = 2Oh\left(\boldsymbol{\tilde{\mathcal{D}}:\tilde{\mathcal{D}}}\right)$, where $\boldsymbol{\mathcal{D}}$ is the symmetric part of the velocity gradient tensor, and the right part the velocity field magnitude normalized with the impact velocity.
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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The passing of Andreas Acrivos is a big loss for our @apsphysics.bsky.social #apsdfd community, where we have had a prize with his name for almost 3 decades now. If you are curious about him, here's a nice conversation he recorded talking about his life and career youtu.be/I_9_3HF_ud4?...
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A Conversation with Andreas Acrivos
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Physics of Fluids @ UTwente @poftwente.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Congratulations, Giulia Piumini, for successfully defending her thesis: Fluid structure interaction of turbulent flows with complex-shape bodies. tinyurl.com/26dd34j2. Congratulations also to the promotion team: Detlef Lohse and Roberto Verzicco. #FluidDynamics #particles
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 27/01/2025
Join me on Jan 30 (4 PM CST) at @UIUC for my seminar on how polymeric liquids can be the “Drosophila” of unsteady continuum mechanics—revealing how polymers reshape free-surface instabilities (drops, bubbles, jets). Abstract: tinyurl.com/23dnlup9 Please DM or email me for details on how to join!
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Physics of Fluids @ UTwente @poftwente.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
⚡To clog or not to clog: @alvaromarin.bsky.social and Mathieu Souzy summarize how particle bridging drives clogging in noncohesive suspensions—from arch formation at constrictions to fluid-induced stabilization and destabilization. @utwente.bsky.social @poftwente.bsky.social #clogging #fluiddynamics
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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is now accessible for free! find out how to make a jellyfish smoothy 🪼, or how to cross a river without a bridge 🪵... thanks @annualreviews.bsky.social for make this volume open! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Wouter Ellenbroek @wg-ellenbroek.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Celebrating two fantastic colleagues tonight at #NWOPhysics. With the Athena award for Prof. Liesbeth Janssen and the Minerva prize for Prof. Hanneke Gelderblom, this is a great evening for TU Eindhoven! ⚛️
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Other scientific journals should follow. I've requested this of the journal where I'm an editor. Other journal editor friends, join us!
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Nick Pizzo @nickpizzooceans.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
vorticity distribution of 2d flow on a non-rotating sphere 🧪🌊
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Kanaya Malakar @kanaya-malakar.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Tree of Life by Leonard Eisenberg! You can clearly see the evolutionary timeline. Humans are in the farthest corner. Gives a sense of how small we are in the bigger picture. I was introduced to this diagram at a talk today by Mazi Jalaal. #activesolids #KITP #activematter
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Arivazhagan G. Balasubramanian (Ari) @gbarivaz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Happy to share that our figure from the JFM article "Bursting bubble in an elastoviscoplastic medium" was chosen as the cover for Vol. 1001! Article: doi.org/10.1017/jfm.... Cover: doi.org/10.1017/jfm.... Huge thanks to my collab: @comphy-lab.org @Mazi_Jalaal @vinuesalab.bsky.social @Outi_Tammisola!
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Bursting bubble in an elastoviscoplastic medium | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core
Bursting bubble in an elastoviscoplastic medium - Volume 1001
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