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Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-14 Pauline C. Petit , Anne-Laure Biance

The characterization of our Galaxy's longest filamentary gas features has been the subject of several studies in recent years, producing not only a sizeable sample of large-scale filaments, but also confusion as to whether all these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Catherine Zucker , Cara Battersby , Alyssa Goodman

We measure the liquid content, the bubble speeds, and the distribution of bubble sizes, in a vertical column of aqueous foam maintained in steady-state by continuous bubbling of gas into a surfactant solution. Nearly round bubbles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Feitosa , Olivia L. Halt , Randall D. Kamien , D. J. Durian

Image generation today can produce somewhat realistic images from text prompts. However, if one asks the generator to synthesize a specific camera setting such as creating different fields of view using a 24mm lens versus a 70mm lens, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yu Yuan , Xijun Wang , Yichen Sheng , Prateek Chennuri , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley Chan

Numerical Simulations are employed to create amorphous nano-films of a chosen thickness on a crystalline substrate which induces strain on the film. The films are grown by a vapor deposition technique which was recently developed to create…

Context: How planets form in protoplanetary disks and what drives the formation of their seeds is still a major unknown. It is an accepted theory that multiple processes can trap dusty material in radially narrow rings or vortex-like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Dominik Ostertag , Mario Flock

We have investigated the formation of 10-50 mm long ``ice spikes'' that sometimes appear on the free surface of water when it solidifies. By freezing water under different conditions, we measured the probability of ice spike formation as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 K. G. Libbrecht , K. Lui

The dynamical state of massive clumps is key to our understanding of the formation of massive stars. In this work, we study the kinematic properties of massive clumps using synthetic observations. We have previously compiled a very large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Zu-Jia Lu , Veli-Matti Pelkonen , Mika Juvela , Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) make an ideal one-dimensional (1D) material platform for the exploration of exotic physical phenomena under extremely strong quantum confinement. The 1D character of electrons, phonons and excitons in individual CNTs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Weilu Gao , Junichiro Kono

A computer simulation model is proposed to study film growth and surface roughness in aqueous ($A$) solution of hydrophobic ($H$) and hydrophilic ($P$) groups on a simple three dimensional lattice of size $L_x \times L_y \times L_z$ with an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shihai Yang , Adam Seyfarth , Sam Bateman , Ras B. Pandey

Solid particles, such as rice and coffee beans, are commonly stored in containers and are ubiquitous in our daily lives. Understanding those particles' properties could help us make later decisions or perform later manipulation tasks such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Xiaofeng Guo , Hung-Jui Huang , Wenzhen Yuan

Here we review the way to build analogue spacetimes in open channel flows by looking at the flow phase diagram and the corresponding analogue experiments performed during the last years in the associated flow regimes. Thin films like the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-29 Germain Rousseaux , Hamid Kellay

Soap films hanging from a wire frame are studied in the framework of capillarity theory. Minimizers in the corresponding variational problem are known to consist of positive volume regions with boundaries of constant mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Darren King , Francesco Maggi , Salvatore Stuvard

In this paper, a new method to model solidification of thin liquid films is proposed. \blue{This method is targeted at applications like aircraft icing and tablet coating where the formation of liquid films from impinging droplets on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-11 Anand S Bharadwaj , Elisa Thiel , Pratik Suchde

We propose a method to interactively control the animation of fluid elements in still images to generate cinemagraphs. Specifically, we focus on the animation of fluid elements like water, smoke, fire, which have the properties of repeating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Aniruddha Mahapatra , Kuldeep Kulkarni

Grasp detection is a persistent and intricate challenge with various industrial applications. Recently, many methods and datasets have been proposed to tackle the grasp detection problem. However, most of them do not consider using natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 An Dinh Vuong , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , Nghia Nguyen , Hieu Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

Suction is an important solution for the longstanding robotic grasping problem. Compared with other kinds of grasping, suction grasping is easier to represent and often more reliable in practice. Though preferred in many scenarios, it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Hanwen Cao , Hao-Shu Fang , Wenhai Liu , Cewu Lu

We present experimental evidence of statistical conformal invariance in isocontours of fluid thickness in experiments of two-dimensional turbulence using soap films. A Schlieren technique is used to visualize regions of the flow with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-09 S. Thalabard , M. I. Auliel , G. Artana , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

We study the behavior of an elastic loop embedded in a flowing soap film. This deformable loop is wetted into the film and is held fixed at a single point against the oncoming flow. We interpret this system as a two-dimensional flexible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sunghwan Jung , Kathleen Mareck , Michael Shelley , Jun Zhang

Photographic emulsion is a particle tracking device which features the best spatial resolution among particle detectors. For certain applications, for example muon radiography, large-scale detectors are required. Therefore, a huge surface…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-07 T. Ariga , A. Ariga , K. Kuwabara , K. Morishima , M. Moto , A. Nishio , P. Scampoli , M. Vladymyrov