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John Martin Kolinski

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The virtual frame technique: ultrafast imaging with any camera

John Martin Kolinski

Many phenomena of interest in nature and industry occur rapidly and are difficult and cost-prohibitive to visualize properly without specialized cameras. Here we describe in detail the virtual frame technique (VFT), a simple, useful, and accessible mode of ...

2019

Surfing the capillary wave: Wetting dynamics beneath an impacting drop

John Martin Kolinski, Ramin Kaviani

The initiation of contact between liquid and a dry solid is of great fundamental and practical importance. We experimentally probe the dynamics of wetting that occur when an impacting drop first contacts a dry surface. We show that, initially, wetting is m ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Bretherton's buoyant bubble

John Martin Kolinski, Wassim Dhaouadi

When a buoyant bubble is inserted into a closed capillary that is slightly smaller than the capillary length, it appears stuck; exactly why this is so is a puzzle that has remained unanswered over the past 50 years. Recent calculations suggest that the bub ...

2019

How Supertough Gels Break

John Martin Kolinski

Fracture of highly stretched materials challenges our view of how things break. We directly visualize rupture of tough double-network gels at >50% strain. During fracture, crack tip shapes obey a x similar to y(1.6) power law, in contrast to the parabolic ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Growth and nonlinear response of driven water bells

John Martin Kolinski

A water bell forms when a fluid jet impacts upon a target and separates into a two-dimensional sheet. Depending on the angle of separation from the target, the sheet can curve into a variety of different geometries. We show analytically that harmonic pertu ...

2017

Internal Stresses Lead to Net Forces and Torques on Extended Elastic Bodies

John Martin Kolinski

A geometrically frustrated elastic body will develop residual stresses arising from the mismatch between the intrinsic geometry of the body and the geometry of the ambient space. We analyze these stresses for an ambient space with gradients in its intrinsi ...

American Physical Society2016

Initiation of liquid-solid contact beneath an impacting drop

John Martin Kolinski

Before an impacting drop contacts the solid surface it must first drain the air beneath it. As a prelude to wetting, before any contact occurs, the impinging liquid confines the intervening air into a nanometers-thin film. Once liquid-solid contact initiat ...

2015

Ringin' the water bell: dynamic modes of curved fluid sheets

John Martin Kolinski

A water bell is formed by fluid flowing in a thin, coherent sheet in the shape of a bell. Experimentally, a water bell is created via the impact of a cylindrical jet on a flat surface. Its shape is set by the splash angle (the separation angle) of the resu ...

2015

Drops can bounce from perfectly hydrophilic surfaces

John Martin Kolinski

Drops are well known to rebound from superhydrophobic surfaces and from liquid surfaces. Here, we show that drops can also rebound from a superhydrophilic solid surface such as an atomically smooth mica sheet. However, the coefficient of restitution CR ass ...

EDP Sciences2014

Lift-Off Instability During the Impact of a Drop on a Solid Surface

John Martin Kolinski

We directly measure the rapid spreading dynamics succeeding the impact of a droplet of fluid on a solid, dry surface. Upon impact, the air separating the liquid from the solid surface fails to drain and wetting is delayed as the liquid rapidly spreads outw ...

American Physical Society2014