Julia M. Yeomans

TL;DR: The kinetics of the nematic-isotropic transition in a two-dimensional liquid crystal is studied by using a lattice Boltzmann scheme that couples the tensor order parameter and the flow consistently and finds that the time dependences of the correlation function, energy density, and number of topological defects obey dynamic scaling laws with growth exponents that agree with the value 1/2 expected from simple dimensional analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how water drops, produced by ink-jet printing, spread on surfaces patterned with lattices of diamond or triangular posts and observe drop shapes with 3, 4 and 6-fold symmetry depending on both the symmetry of the lattice and the shape of the posts.

TL;DR: In this article, lattice Boltzmann simulations are used to model the attenuation-driven acoustic streaming produced by a travelling wave and the streaming pattern produced by an imposed body force approximating the Reynolds stresses.

TL;DR: It is found that now both singlets and doublets can exhibit superhydrophobic behavior on hydrophilic hairs, and the results can be modified to describe an array of hairs in three dimensions.

TL;DR: In this article, a film of active nematics between two parallel plates is shown to behave as a quasi-2D material, with straight topological disclination lines spanning the height of the channel and exhibiting effectively 2D active turbulence.