Kenneth Desmond
     5th Year Graduate Student
 

List of Jamming Projects

Experiment - Forces Between 2D Emulsions Compressed Beyond the Jamming Point

Simulation - Random Close Packing of Disks and Spheres in Confined Geometries

Experiment - Jamming of three-dimensional prolate granular materials

  • Studied the phase behavior of the force needed to pull a small object through a pile of rods, and the packing fraction dependence on aspect ratio. (Click here for website) (Publication)

List of Granular Projects

Experiment - Forces Between 2D Emulsions Compressed Beyond the Jamming Point

Experiment - Penetration of an Object into Granular Media

  • We using MRI imaging to visualize the flow of grains around a penetrating object. This work is done in collaboration with Igor Veretennikov at Notre Dame and Peter Schiffer at Penn State. (Click here for website)

Experiment - Fluidity of Sand

  • Shearing of fluidization granular media via oscillating a rotating drum apparatus.

Experiment - Jamming of three-dimensional prolate granular materials

  • Studied the phase behavior of the force needed to pull a small object through a pile of rods, and the packing fraction dependence on aspect ratio. (Click here for website) (Publication)

List of Microrheology Projects

Experiment - Ellipsoidal Diffusion

  • Studying the correlated motion between pairs of ellipsoids diffusing in a visco-elastic material. (Click here for website)

List of Glass Transition Projects

Experiment - Spatial and temporal dynamical heterogenities approaching the binary colloidal glass transition

  • Studying the four point suspectibility of a colloidal supercooled liquid upon approaching the glass transition. (Click here for website)