Nonlinear Physics Group Papers
Select one of the following topics:
The morphology of icicles
See also the
icicle ripples page
.
Viscous rope coiling and the "fluid mechanical sewing machine"
Work done in the
GK Batchelor Lab
at
DAMTP
, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with various people.
Smectic film electroconvection
See
here
for an overview of this topic. Work done in collaboration with the
Newfoundland
group.
Granular materials and washboard road
See
here
for an overview of this topic.
Columnar joints and mud cracks
See
here
for an overview of this topic.
Convection at chemical reaction fronts
See
here
for an overview of this topic.
Shaking compressible fluids
Bénard-Marangoni Convection
See
here
for an overview of this topic.
Rayleigh-Bénard convection in pressurized gases
See
here
for an overview of this topic. Work done in collaboration with the
Santa Barbara
group.
Experiments with geophysical flows
Work by Yakov Afanasyev of the
atmospheric physics group
, done in our lab.
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The Experimental Nonlinear Physics Group, Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto
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