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Effective mixing is essential for biochemical reactions. In droplet-based microfluidics, immediate mixing of substances upon contact in the droplet formation stage can greatly enhance the uniformity of chemical reactions. Furthermore, it…

Biological cells utilize membranes and liquid-like droplets, known as biomolecular condensates, to structure their interior. The interaction of droplets and membranes, despite being involved in several key biological processes, is so far…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-21 Marcel Mokbel , Dominic Mokbel , Susanne Liese , Christoph A. Weber , Sebastian Aland

We implement a shape optimization algorithm for body-assisted light-matter interactions described by the formalism of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. The approach uses the level-set method to represent and incrementally evolve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jonas Matuszak , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Robert Bennett

Self-assembly of nanoparticles at fluid-fluid interfaces is a promising route to fabricate functional materials from the bottom-up. However, directing and controlling particles into highly tunable and predictable structures -- while…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-25 Qingguang Xie , Gary B. Davies , Jens Harting

We investigate the deformation of elastic microcapsules adsorbed at liquid-liquid interfaces. An initially spherical elastic capsule at a liquid-liquid interface undergoes circumferential stretching due to the liquid-liquid surface tension…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-16 Jonas Hegemann , Horst-Holger Boltz , Jan Kierfeld

The evaporation of droplets occurs in a large variety of natural and technological processes such as medical diagnostics, agriculture, food industry, printing, and catalytic reactions. We study the different droplet morphologies adopted by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-11 Jose M. Encarnacion Escobar , Diana Garcia-Gonzalez , Ivan Devic , Xuehua Zhang , Detlef Lohse

Pin fins are imperative in the cooling of turbine blades. The designs of pin fins, therefore, have seen significant research in the past. With the developments in metal additive manufacturing, novel design approaches toward complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-31 Susheel Dharmadhikari , Reid A. Berdanier , Karen A. Thole , Amrita Basak

This research introduces a new drop fluidics, which uses a deformable and stretchable elastomeric film as the platform, instead of the commonly used rigid supports. Such a soft film impregnated with magnetic particles can be modulated with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-01 Saheli Biswas , Yves Pomeau , Manoj K. Chaudhury

We study the fluid-mediated approach of a deformable axisymmetric object towards a rigid substrate, focusing on how its shape influences contact formation. For low approach velocities and large Stokes numbers, we show that sharper profiles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Joaquin Garcia-Suarez

Continuum-scale material deformation models, such as crystal plasticity, can significantly enhance their predictive accuracy by incorporating input from lower-scale (i.e., mesoscale) models. The procedure to generate and extract the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Nicholas Huebner Julian , Giacomo Po , Enrique Martinez , Nithin Mathew , Danny Perez

The dewetting of an azopolymer droplet, followed by the photostructuration of the evaporated droplet, is employed to create an amplitude mask. This straightforward process yields a large area featuring periodic micro- and nanostructures.…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-08 R. Barille , A. Korbut , S. Zielinska , E. Ortyl , D. G. Perez

This paper proposes improvements to the physically-based surface triangulation method, bubble meshing. The method simulates physical bubbles to automatically generate mesh vertices, resulting in high-quality Delaunay triangles. Despite its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Lei Shangyu , Fan Wei , Ren Hui

A new adaptive shaping method that can generate arbitrary optical waveforms with folded-type or fan-type birefringent variable shapers is proposed in this paper. Automatic arbitrary laser temporal shaping of picosecond and femtosecond…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-10 Fangming Liu

This paper proposes a low order geometrically exact flexible beam formulation based on the utilisation of generic beam shape functions to approximate distributed kinematic properties of the deformed structure. The proposed nonlinear beam…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 C. Howcroft , R. G. Cook , S. A. Neild , M. H. Lowenberg , J. E. Cooper , E. B. Coetzee

We introduce a novel method for the implementation of shape optimziation in fluid dynamics applications, where we propose to use the shape derivative to determine deformation fields with the help of the $p-$ Laplacian for $p > 2$. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Peter Marvin Müller , Niklas Kühl , Martin Siebenborn , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

In this paper, we investigate the effect of spectral pulse shaping of the laser driver on the performance of channel-guided, laser-plasma accelerators. The study was carried out with the assistance of Bayesian optimization using…

The tuning of fused filament fabrication parameters is notoriously challenging. We propose an autonomous data-driven method to select parameters based on in situ measurements. We use a laser sensor to evaluate the surface roughness of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Xavier Guidetti , Marino Kühne , Yannick Nagel , Efe C. Balta , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

Scaling Bayesian optimization to high dimensions is challenging task as the global optimization of high-dimensional acquisition function can be expensive and often infeasible. Existing methods depend either on limited active variables or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-16 Cheng Li , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Vu Nguyen , Svetha Venkatesh , Alistair Shilton

One of the goals of computer-aided surgery is to match intraoperative data to preoperative images of the anatomy and add complementary information that can facilitate the task of surgical navigation. In this context, mechanical palpation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Elif Ayvali , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Long Wang , Rajarshi Roy , Nabil Simaan , Howie Choset

Complex non-local behavior makes designing high efficiency and multifunctional metasurfaces a significant challenge. While using libraries of meta-atoms provide a simple and fast implementation methodology, pillar to pillar interaction…