My Work

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Topics of Current Work

• Surface tension related phenomena e.g.
  • spreading of oil on water with a chemical reaction at the interface (see PoF paper from 2006)
  • liquid lenses and potential applications in microfluidics
  • pulling glass fibers and similar processes

• Aerodynamics, but more specifically
  • the design of humpback whale flippers (see paper from 2008)

• Colloidal stuff
  • continuation of the work on ellipsoidal particles at air/water interfaces based on experiments recently published in PRL.

Papers produced

2008

• E.A. van Nierop, B. Scheid, H.A. Stone, "On the thickness of soap films: An alternative to Frankel's Law", J. Fluid Mech. 602 119 (2008) (link)
• E.A. van Nierop, S. Alben, M.P. Brenner, "How bumps on whale flippers delay stall: An aerodynamic model", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 054502 (2008) (link)
  • This work was featured in
    • Nature Research Highlights (pdf)
    • MIT's Technology Review.

It seems that it won't take too long before windmills, large ventilators, and some aircraft wings resemble bumpy humpback whale flippers... which is very amusing.

2007

• E.A. van Nierop, S. Luther, J.J. Bluemink, J. Magnaudet, A. Prosperetti & D. Lohse, "Drag and lift forces on bubbles in a rotating flow", J. Fluid Mech. 571 439 (2007). (PDF)

2006

• E.A. van Nierop, A. Ajdari & H.A. Stone, "Reactive spreading and recoil of oil on water", Phys. Fluids 18 038105 (2006). (PDF)

2005

• E.A. van Nierop, M.A. Stijnman & S. Hilgenfeldt, "Shape-induced capillary interactions of colloidal particles", EuroPhys. Lett. 72 671 (2005). (PDF)
• J.J. Bluemink, E.A. van Nierop, S. Luther, N.G. Deen, J. Magnaudet, A. Prosperetti & D. Lohse, "Asymmetry-induced particle drift in a rotating flow", Phys. Fluids 17 072106 (2005). (PDF)