The Complex Matter and Nonlinear Physics Laboratory at
Clark University

Department of Physics
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Research Emphasis
  • Granular Matter
  • Quantum Chaos
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  • Publications/Preprints:

    Granular matter and Geomorphology

    1. "Physical test of a particle simulation model in a sheared granular system," C. H. Rycroft, A. V. Orpe, and A. Kudrolli, submitted to Physical Review E.
    2. "Structure and dynamics of vibrated granular chains: Comparison to equilibrium polymers," K. Safford, Y. Kantor, M. Kardar, and A. Kudrolli, Physical Review E (accepted).
    3. "Growth laws for channel networks incised by groundwater flow," D. M. Abrams, A. E. Lobkovsky, A. P. Petroff, K. M. Straub, B. McElroy, D. C. Mohrig, A. Kudrolli, and D. H. Rothman, Nature Geoscience 2, 193 (2009).
      Nature Geoscience - Cover
    4. "Fast decay of the velocity autocorrelation function in dense shear flow of inelastic hard spheres," A. V. Orpe, V. Kumaran, K. A. Reddy and A. Kudrolli, Europhys. Lett. 84, 64003 (2008).
    5. "Gallery of Nonlinear Images: Channel erosion due to subsurface flow," B. Smith, A. Kudrolli, A. E. Lobkovsky, and D. H. Rothman," Chaos 18, 041105 (2008).
    6. "News and Views: Granular Matter - Sticky Sand," A. Kudrolli, Nature Materials 7, 174 (2008).
    7. "Swarming and swirling in self-propelled polar granular rods," Arshad Kudrolli, Geoffroy Lumay, Dmitri Volfson, Lev S. Tsimring, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 058001 (2008) . PRL Cover.
    8. "Lubrication effects on the flow of wet granular materials," Q. Xu, A. V. Orpe, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 76, 031302 (2007).
    9. "Erosion of a granular bed driven by laminar fluid flow," A. Orpe, A. Lobkovsky, R. Molloy, A. Kudrolli, and D. Rothman, submitted to J. Fluid Mech.
    10. "Velocity correlations in dense granular flows observed with internal imaging," A.V. Orpe and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 238001 (2007). cond-mat/0612658
    11. "Dynamics of channel incision in a granular bed driven by subsurface water flow," A. E. Lobkovsky, B. Smith, A. Kudrolli, D. C. Mohrig, and D. H. Rothman, J. Geophys. Res., 112, F03S12 (2007). doi:10.1029/2006JF000517. cond-mat/0505352.
    12. "Friction of a slider on a granular layer: Non-monotonic thickness dependence and effect of boundary conditions," S. Siavoshi, A. V. Orpe, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 73, 010301 (2006).
    13. "Dynamics of a bouncing dimer," S. Dorbolo, D. Volfson, L. Tsimring, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 044101 (2005) physics/0506060.
    14. "Maximum angle of stability of a wet granular pile," S. Nowak, A. Samadani, and A. Kudrolli, Nature Physics 1, 50 (2005). reprint. See related News and Views, and Cover Story.
    15. "Velocity profile of granular flows inside silos and hoppers," J. Choi, A. Kudrolli, and M. Z. Bazant, J. Phys. Condensed Matter 17 S2533-S2548 (2005). cond-mat/0501568.
    16. "Failure of a granular step," S. Siavoshi and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 71, 051302 (2005) (6 pages). cond-mat/0503231.
    17. "Threshold phenomena in erosion driven by subsurface flow,'' A. E. Lobkovsky, B. Jensen, A. Kudrolli, and D. H. Rothman, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 109, F04010 (2004) preprint
    18. "Anisotropy driven dynamics in vibrated granular rods," D. Volfson, A. Kudrolli, and L.S. Tsimring, Phys. Rev. E 70, 051312 (2004). cond-mat/0403489.
    19. "Diffusion and mixing in gravity-driven dense granular flows," J. Choi, A. Kudrolli, R. R. Rosales, and M. Z. Bazant, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 174301 (2004). preprint
    20. "Size separation in vibrated granular materials," A. Kudrolli, Rep. Prog. Phys. 67 209-247 (2004). pdf
    21. "Magnetized granular materials," D.L. Blair and A. Kudrolli, in The Physics of Granular Media, H. Hinrichsen and D.E. Wolf (Editors), (Wiley-VCH publishers, 2004) 281-296.
      Magnetic Mesh - Cover
    22. "Spontaneous channelization in permeable ground: Theory, experiment, and observation," N. Schorghofer, B. Jensen, A. Kudrolli, and D.H. Rothman, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 503, 357-374 (2004). preprint
    23. "Collision statistics of driven granular materials," D.L. Blair and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 67, 041301 (2003). cond-mat/0212336
    24. "Vortices in vibrated granular rods," D.L. Blair, T. Neicu, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 67, 031303 (2003). cond-mat/0203236
    25. "Clustering transitions in vibro-fluidized magnetized granular materials," D.L. Blair and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 67, 021302 (2003). cond-mat/0203488
    26. "Shocks in sand flowing in a silo," A. Samadani, L. Mahadevan, and A. Kudrolli, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 452, 293-301 (2002). cond-mat/0110427
    27. "Velocity correlations in dense granular gases," D. L. Blair and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 64, 050301(R) (2001) cond-mat/0101015
    28. "Angle of repose and segregation of cohesive granular matter," A. Samadani and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 64, 051301 (2001) cond-mat/0106572
    29. "Segregation transitions in wet granular matter," A. Samadani and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5102 (2000) cond-mat/0008293
    30. "Non-Gaussian velocity distributions in excited granular matter in the absence of clustering," A. Kudrolli and J. Henry, Phys. Rev. E 62, R1489 (2000) cond-mat.
    31. "Size segregation of granular matter in silo discharges," A. Samadani, A. Pradhan, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 60, 7203 (1999). preprint
    32. "Visualization of segregation in granular flows inside silos," A. Samadani, A. Pradhan, and A. Kudrolli, The Proceedings of The ITUAM Symposium on Segregation in Granular Flows, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000) p. 53.

    Elasticity and Crumpling

    1. "Curvature condensation and bifurcation in an elastic shell," M. Das, A. Vaziri, A. Kudrolli, and L. Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 014301 (2007).
    2. "The geometry of crumpled paper," D.L. Blair and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 166107 (2005).
      PRL - Cover
      PRL - Cover

    Biological physics

    1. "Swarming ring patterns in bacterial colonies exposed to ultraviolet radiation," A. Delprato, A. Samadani, A. Kudrolli, and L. Tsimring, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 158102 (2001) cond-mat/0101018 See related story at Bacterial Trek
    2. "Extinction transition in bacterial colonies under forced convection," T. Neicu, A. Pradhan, D. A. Larochelle, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 62, 1059 (2000) cond-mat/0001023.

    Quantum and Acoustic Chaos

    1. "Periodic orbit analysis of an acoustic resonator using shape deformation," T. Neicu and A. Kudrolli, Europhys. Lett., 57 (3) , 341-347 (2002) cond-mat/0110543
    2. "Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of a Clover Plate," O. Brodier, T. Neicu, and A. Kudrolli, Eur. Phys. J. B 23, 365 (2001).
    3. "Spectral properties of a mixed system using an acoustical resonator," T. Neicu, K. Schaadt, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 63 026206 (2001).
    4. "Scarred patterns in surface waves," A. Kudrolli, M. Abraham, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. E 63, 026208 (2001) non-lin/0002045
    5. "Experimental investigation of universal parametric correlators using a vibrating plate," K. Schaadt and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 60, R3479 (1999).

    Contact:
    Arshad Kudrolli
    akudrolli@clarku.edu
    Department of Physics
    Clark University
    Worcester, MA 01610

    Last updated June 08, 2009.