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A new colloidal phenomenon – the hierarchical levitating droplet cluster

May 24, 2022Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related mattersdroplets, instability, papers

There are many interesting and unusual effects related to the levitating droplet cluster. Most of these have been discovered very recently. Besides the regular (hexagonally arranged) cluster, there is a chain cluster including the branched cluster, small clusters, and the… Read More

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

Department of Mechanical EngineeringProf. Michael Nosonovsky

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