Bacterial Footprints in Elastic Pillared Microstructures
A. Susarrey-Arce, J. F. Hernández-Sánchez, M. Marcello, Y. Diaz-Fernandez, A. Oknianska, I. Sorzabal-Bellido, R. Tiggelaar, D. Lohse, H. Gardeniers, J. H. Snoeijer, A. Marin, and R. Raval
ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 1(5),1294 (2018)
DOI:10.1021/acsabm.8b00176
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In this year’s Euromech, I’ll be presenting our latest results on the pattern formation in evaporating salty drops, much of it will be hopefully soon be submitted for publication. Particularly excited to show the very fresh results of my students Laura and Myrthe!
The presentation will be part of the minisymposium “Fluid mechanics of particles at interfaces and surfactants” organized by Lorenzo Botto, from Queen Mary University of London (UK).
Hope to see you there!
It took lots of practice but our paper on Water Bottle Flipping Physics was published in the American Journal of Physics and is available in arXiv. The paper has been also chosen as “editor’s pick” in the Am. J. Physics.
But here’s the most important fact: all the experiments and most of the analysis and modeling has been done by Pim, Lumen, Mees, Remco and Anne, first year students of physics in the university of Twente!
You can find an open access version of the paper here (or here), and don’t miss our video abstract with original music, featuring Rodrigo Ezeta (production and guitar), Mazi Jalaal (cajon) and myself (on the bass guitar).
Dutch TV channels RTL4 and RTV Oost are featuring our work in their news with interviews to us and our students, I will update this post as soon as I have any material. See the latest video from our brilliant kids performing flips on TV (in dutch).
So happy to be participating in the DPG conference in Berlin! I will be talking on Monday 12th on the Focus Droplets session and on Wednesday 14th on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter. Hope to see you there!
Together with Javier Rodriguez-Rodriguez, we have been organizing this workshop/seminar “El Almendro” for a few years in the University Carlos III in Madrid.
The show runs on Friday 22 December 2017 in the University Carlos III of Madrid, free entrance! Here is the line-up:
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Iker Zuriguel, Universidad de Navarra: “Pedestrian flow through bottlenecks”
10:50 Claudia Esarte, Centro de Tecnologia Repsol: ““Tecnologia de combustibles en Repsol””
11:30 Cafelito
12:00 Javier Urzay, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University.
12:40 Alvaro Marin, Universidad de Twente: “Drying Teardrops”
13:10 Laura Bernáez, Max Planck for Brain Research: “Modelling the communication between neurons”
13:50 Despedida y a comida!
Water Bottle Flipping Physics
Pim J. Dekker, Lumen A.G. Eek, Mees M. Flapper, Remco H.J.C. Horstink, Anne R. Meulenkamp, Jelle van der Meulen, Stefan Kooij, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Alvaro Marin
American Journal of Physics 86, 733 (2018);
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052441
I’m currently “on tour” presenting our work on the clogging of suspensions in Barcelona (last week), Stockholm (right now) and Twente next week (hardcoresoftmatter.com)… A preprint of the paper can be downloaded in arxiv already. Hopefully it will be officially published soon.
Please come by if you have the chance and never seen the presentation yet!
Looking forward to be in Denver this year for the American Physics Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics, being held in Denver this year.
This year I’ll be talking about salty droplets and Tamy Guimarães ( @tamygb ) will be talking about some new stuff we have been doing on unclogging using acoustic forces.
Clogging in constricted suspension flows
Alvaro Marin, Henri Lhuissier, Massimiliano Rossi, Christian J Kähler
Physical Review E 97, 021102R (2018) [arXiv]
Today I am co-organizing the kick-off meeting of the “Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics” hosted in the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen! Quite excited to see this thing finally running, with lots of people from Twente, Mainz and Göttingen joining forces.
Check out the teaser in Youtube: