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Manyken @13rs4t4st.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Pro-tip: Before I submit my proposal, I read it again, but after 2 glasses of wine on an empty stomach. Places where it isn't totally clear to you in that state, it not going to be clear to the reviewer. Edit that bit.

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Tejas Murthy @granmech.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My former student Kishor, colleague Gaurav and I worked on the dynamics of a liquid film flowing down a granular chain. Here are the results of the experiments and some simulations. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dynamics of a liquid film flowing down a granular chain | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core

Dynamics of a liquid film flowing down a granular chain - Volume 1016

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Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Cool finding 2: The effect of the bonded dimers extends outward to their nearest neighbors, where we see that both coordination number and pressure are elevated compared to the average. Civil engineering 🏛️ meets statistical physics ⚛️ is a great combination!

Top graph: coordination number as a function of distance away from a bonded dimer
Bottom graph: pressure as a function of distance away from a bonded dimer

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Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Cool finding 1: we can make histograms of all particles (or just the bonded ones), and study how increased rigidity arises as a function of the fraction of bonded pairs. There are stronger interparticle forces present for the dimers (50% tension, 50% compression) compared to the unbonded particles.

$Top graph: histograms of mean contact forces, which grow longer tails as the concentration of bonded dimers increases. Bottom: No matter the fraction of bonded dimers, this histogram of the normal force shows that they are roughly equal populations of being under tension or compression (with slightly more under compression).$

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Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I had the pleasure of being a #Fulbright scholar in @granmech.bsky.social 's lab at IISc Bangalore last year, where grad student Abrar Naseer is doing photoelastic force measurements on bonded pairs of particles (my lab just does single ones!) Here's the first preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19214

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Micromechanics of compressive and tensile forces in partially-bonded granular materials

In granular media, the presence of even small amounts of interparticle cohesion manifests as an increase in the bulk strength and stiffness, effects that are typically associated with an increase in t...

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