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Mechanics of instabilities, splashes, and Japanese poet Basho

March 5, 2017Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related mattersinstability, mechanics, papers

A famous Japanese poem, the “Frog Haiku” composed by Bashô in 1686, says: 古池や 蛙飛び込む 水の音 (“Old pond — a frog jumped in — sound of water”). Splashes of water are fascinating phenomena. An award winning photograph “Milk Drop Coronet”… Read More

Hygrocyst – a type of mechanical instability discovered by a UWM collegue 50 years ago

December 26, 2016Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related mattersinstability, mechanics

Can you discover a new type of hydrodynamic instability? A UWM colleague from our department, Dr. Robert Balmer, did it almost 50 years ago. The phenomenon is the following: imagine that you have a horizontal pipe partially filled with a… Read More

Frictional instabilities: can one generalize them for a more general class of non-mechanical systems?

December 20, 2016Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related mattersfriction, instability

My doctoral research (some 15 years ago) was about the Adams (or Adams-Martins) instabilities. We showed that this type of instabilities exists for multiple asperity contacts (modeled as a periodic set of contacts, see, M. Nosonovsky & G. Adams, “Vibration… Read More

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