[HTML][HTML] Viscous dynamics of drops and bubbles in Hele-Shaw cells: Drainage, drag friction, coalescence, and bursting

K Okumura - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2018 - Elsevier
In this review article, we discuss recent studies on drops and bubbles in Hele-Shaw cells,
focusing on how scaling laws exhibit crossovers from the three-dimensional counterparts …

An efficient soil penetration strategy for explorative robots inspired by plant root circumnutation movements

E Del Dottore, A Mondini, A Sadeghi… - Bioinspiration & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a comparative analysis in terms of energy required by an artificial probe
to penetrate soil implementing two different strategies: a straight penetration movement and …

Discontinuum modeling of solid deformation pore-water diffusion coupling

Y Cui, D Chan, A Nouri - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
This paper presents a numerical scheme for a solid–fluid coupled discrete-element method
(DEM) that takes into consideration solid deformation and pore pressure generation and …

Reducing segregation in vibrated binary-sized granular mixtures by excessive small particle introduction

F Nakai, K Yoshii - Granular Matter, 2025 - Springer
We numerically examine binary-sized granular mixtures confined between two parallel walls
subjected to vertical vibration using the discrete element method. For a size ratio of 3 …

Micromechanics of intruder motion in wet granular medium

R Jewel, A Panaitescu, A Kudrolli - Physical Review Fluids, 2018 - APS
We investigate the effective friction encountered by an intruder moving through a
sedimented medium, which consists of transparent granular hydrogels immersed in water …

Role of shape on the forces on an intruder moving through a dense granular medium

BK Tripura, S Kumar, K Anki Reddy… - Particulate Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We use numerical simulation to investigate the effect an intruder's shape has on the drag
and lift forces that it experiences while moving through a granular medium composed of …

Drag acting on an intruder in a three-dimensional granular environment

S Takada, H Hayakawa - Granular Matter, 2020 - Springer
The drag acting on an intruder in a three-dimensional frictionless dry granular environment
is numerically studied. It is found the followings:(1) There is no yield force for the motion of …

Effective drag of a rod in fluid-saturated granular beds

B Allen, A Kudrolli - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We measure the drag encountered by a vertically oriented rod moving across a sedimented
granular bed immersed in a fluid under steady-state conditions. At low rod speeds, the …

Optimal control of plant root tip dynamics in soil

F Tedone, E Del Dottore, M Palladino… - Bioinspiration & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper aims to propose a novel approach to model the dynamics of objects that move
within the soil, eg plants roots. One can assume that external forces are significant only at …

Intruder dynamics in a frictional granular fluid: A molecular dynamics study

P Das, S Puri, M Schwartz - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We study the dynamics of an intruder moving through a fluidized granular medium in three
dimensions (d= 3). The intruder and grains have both translational and rotational degrees of …