20^th annual Northeastern

Granular Materials Workshop

Friday, June 7^th, 2024

Department of Physics, College of the Holy Cross

Schedule

8:45 – 9:30 AM

Meet-and-greet, refreshments

Session 1

     Chair: Ryan Kozlowski

9:30 – 9:35 AM

Opening remarks and welcome

9:35 – 10:15 AM

Clogging and intermittency in microfluidic and hopper flows

Sara Hashmi

10:15 – 10:30 AM

Cornerstones are the Key Stones: Studying Granular Clogging with Machine Learning as an Experimental Guide

Sam Dillavou

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Stochastic dynamics of granular hopper flows: slow configurational modes control the stability of clogs

David Hathcock

10:45 – 11:00 AM

Coffee break

Session 2

     Chair: Narayanan Menon

11:00 – 11:40 AM

Mechanical response in jammed materials: From local structure to control theory

Erin Teich

11:40 – 11:55 AM

The hysteresis and irreversibility transitions in cyclicly sheared amorphous solids

Craig Maloney

11:55 AM – 12:10 PM

Descent of Single and Pairwise Intruders in Vibrated Gas-Fluidized Granular Materials

Christopher Boyce

12:10 – 1:10 PM

Lunch

Session 3

     Chair: Kerstin Nordstrom

1:10 – 1:50 PM

Rigidity and failure in granular materials: from the particle to the bulk scale

Karen Daniels

1:50 – 2:05 PM

Designing the pressure-dependent shear modulus using tessellated granular metamaterials

Dong Wang

2:05 – 2:20 PM

Jamming on Deformable Surfaces

Timothy Atherton

2:20 – 2:25 PM

Break / table talk preparation

Table talks

2:25 – 3:25 PM

Robin Burton: Rotating Intruders in Dense Granular Beds

Levi Cass: Granular Flow within a Quasi-2D Hopper in the Presence of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Angled Orifice Boundaries

William Hobson-Rhoades: Understanding the Change in Ductility of a Granular Raft under Small Amplitude Oscillatory Deformation

Sohum Kapadia: Entanglement and localization of active filaments in a square well

Emile Kraus: The Marine Sponge Cliona celata as a living, granular metamaterial

Arshad Kudrolli: Magnetoelastic robots in sand

Lori McCabe: Switching Flows in a 2D Silo

Stephanie McNamara: Preliminary Work with OrganoMercury-Free Photoelastic Particles

Amir Nazemi: Understanding the Propulsion of a Scallop-like Swimmer in Granular Media

Evan Willmarth: Discrete Eshelby Inclusions in Amorphous Solids

Chetan Yadav: Effects of Activity on approaching Glassiness

Yating Zhang: Hindered stokesian settling of discs and rods

Tejas Dethe: Group Representation Theory for Elastic (possibly Granular?) Metamaterials

Mary Reiter: Granular electrostatic formations with peeled tape

3:25 – 3:30 PM

Break / table talk take-down

Session 4

     Chair: Arshad Kudrolli

3:30 – 3:45 PM

Elastocapillary Adhesion of Soft Gel Microspheres

Katharine Jensen

3:45 – 4:00 PM

Large deformation DEM powder compaction simulations using a mechanically-derived contact model for adhesive elastic-plastic particles

William Zunker

4:00 – 4:40 PM

Some new methodologies in continuum modeling of granular flow

Ken Kamrin

4:40 – 4:45 PM

Concluding remarks