Elastohydrodynamic Lift at a Soft Wall

Davies, HS; Debarre, D; El Amri, N; Verdier, C; Richter, RP; Bureau, L

Bureau, L (reprint author), Univ Grenoble Alpes, LIPhy, CNRS, F-38000 Grenoble, France.; Richter, RP (reprint author), Univ Leeds, Fac Biol Sci, Astbury Ctr Struct Mol Biol, Sch Phys & Astron,Fac Math & Phys Sci,Sch Biomed, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, Eng

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2018; 120 (19):

Abstract

We study experimentally the motion of nondeformable microbeads in a linear shear flow close to a wall bearing a thin and soft polymer layer. Combining......

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