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Ferrofluids exhibit two canonical interfacial instabilities, a static Rosensweig (normal-field) instability that produces a lattice of peaks and a dynamical Faraday instability that produces parametrically excited standing waves. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Taige Wang , Kaiyuan Gu , Anzhou Wang , Zhentang Wang

Wave phenomena can be artificially engineered by scattering from metasurfaces, which aids in the design of radio-frequency and optical devices for wireless communication, sensing, imaging, wireless power transfer and bio/medical…

Metamaterials provide exceptional control over physical phenomena, enabling many disruptive technologies. However, researches in hydrodynamic meta-devices have mainly used intrusive methods to manipulate material structures, limited by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-01 Chen-Long Wu , Bin Wang , Hao Wang , Neng-Zhi Yao , Liujun Xu , Xuesheng Wang , Jiping Huang

Flexible mechanical metamaterials possess repeating structural motifs that imbue them with novel, exciting properties including programmability, anomalous elastic moduli and nonlinear and robust response. We address such structures via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-11 Adrien Saremi , Zeb Rocklin

We revisit here the stability of a deformable interface that separates a fully-developed turbulent gas flow from a thin layer of laminar liquid. Unlike previous work, the turbulent base state velocity profile proposed here requires only a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-26 Lennon Ó Náraigh , Peter Spelt , Omar Matar , Tamer Zaki

A small drop of a heavier fluid may float on the surface of a lighter fluid supported by surface tension forces. In equilibrium, the drop assumes a radially symmetric shape with a circular triple-phase contact line. We show theoretically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Andrey Pototsky , Alexander Oron , Michael Bestehorn

The conception of new metamaterials showing unorthodox behaviors with respect to elastic wavepropagation has become possible in recent years thanks to powerful dynamical homogenization techniques. Such methods effectively allow to describe…

Flow instabilities within a fluid flow can cause laminar-to-turbulent transition over surfaces. These instabilities can result from upstream, wake-generating disturbances, leading to increased drag and turbulence-induced energy losses. Flow…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Melanie Keogh , Jensen McTighe , Jason Dahl , Osama R. Bilal

Non-reciprocal interactions fueled by local energy consumption can be found in biological and synthetic active matter at scales where viscoelastic forces are important. Such systems can be described by "odd" viscoelasticity, which assumes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Active matter embraces systems that self-organize at different length and time scales, often exhibiting turbulent flows. Here, we use a quasi-two-dimensional nematically ordered layer of a protein-based active gel to experimentally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-01 Pau Guillamat , Jordi Ignés-Mullol , Francesc Sagués

Motion in a one-dimensional (1D) microfluidic array is simulated. Water droplets, dragged by flowing oil, are arranged in a single row, and due to their hydrodynamic interactions spacing between these droplets oscillates with a wave-like…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bin Liu , J. Goree , Yan Feng

The complex physics of self-assembly in colloidal crystals on deformable interfaces and surfaces poses interesting possibilities for the designability and synthesis of next-generation metamaterials. The goal of this article is to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-23 Sanjay Dharmavaram , Basant Lal Sharma

Non-reciprocal systems have been shown to exhibit various interesting wave phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, which causes accumulation of modes at boundaries. Recent research on discrete systems showed that this effect can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Felix Langfeldt , Joe Tan , Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

Metamaterials with the transformation method has greatly promoted the development in achieving invisibility and illusion for various classical waves. However, the requirement of tailor-made bulk materials and extreme constitutive parameters…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Yongquan Liu , Zixian Liang , Fu Liu , Owen Diba , Alistair Lamb , Jensen Li

Time-varying metamaterials are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties change over time. Similar to a spatial medium discontinuity, a sudden change in time of the metamaterial refractive index induces the generation of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Davide Ramaccia , Alessandro Toscano , Filiberto Bilotti

Faraday rotation is a fundamental property present in all non-reciprocal optical elements. In the THz range, graphene displays strong Faraday rotation; unfortunately, it is limited to frequencies below the cyclotron resonance. Here we show…

Interlayer coupling in two-dimensional (2D) layered nanomaterials can provide us novel strategies to evoke their superior properties, such as the exotic flat bands and unconventional superconductivity of twisted layers, the formation of…

Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrus Giraldo , Stefan Ruschel , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

Flutter instability in an infinite medium is a form of material instability corresponding to the occurrence of complex conjugate squares of the acceleration wave velocities. Although its occurrence is known to be possible in elastoplastic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Andrea Piccolroaz , Davide Bigoni , John R. Willis

Metamaterials are arrangement of basic building blocks that repeat in space, time, or both. These material systems serve as an excellent platform for controlling waves, such as engineering wavenumber band gaps, flat bands, and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mohamed A. Elgamal , Osama R. Bilal