Group Members
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PhD Students Karsten Baumgarten researches constitutive relations (i.e. mechanical equations of state) in materials close to their jamming transition. Examples include the nonlocal elasticity and critical viscoelasticity of foams and emulsions, and the origin of the nonlinear Poynting effect in mechanical networks. Julia Boschan is studying the mechanics of materials that are solid, but only marginally so. Examples include emulsions and foams near the random close packing state. She uses computer simulations to study elastic, viscous, and plastic phenomena such as strain softening, slow relaxation processes, and irreversibility. Dion Koeze performs theoretical and numerical studies of complex fluids and soft solids. His current projects include elasic properties of mixtures of soft repulsive spheres, as well as finite size effects near the non-equilibrium jamming transition. He is also investigating how rigidity emerges in collections of athermal attractive particles. Faculty Brian Tighe is an associate professor at TU Delft. He is interested in soft solids, thick fluids, and especially transitions from one to the other. Group alumni Daniel Vågberg studied jamming and dense magnetorheological flows as a postdoc from 2014-2016. [1] [2] [3] [4] |
 
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