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Condensed Matter Physics Group
Physics Department
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Research Interests:
Professor Davidovitch writes: “My research interests are primarily in the physics of soft matter, and in non-equilibrium physics. In particular, I study mechanisms for pattern formation in elastic membranes (e.g. wrinkling and crumpling), fluids (e.g. capillary waves and shear banding), and solids (e.g. sputtering-induced nanopatterning).
Selected Publications:
Davidovitch B. Period fissioning and other instabilities of stressed elastic membranes. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009;80:025202(R)
Jiangshui Huang, Benny Davidovitch, Christian Santangelo, Thomas P. Russell, Narayanan Menon, “A smooth cascade of wrinkles at the edge of a floating elastic film”, Cornell University Library, arXiv:0901.2892 [cond-mat.soft], DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.038302, 19 January, 2009, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
B. Davidovitch, R.D. Schroll, D. Vella, M. Adda-Bedia, and E. Cerda, “Prototypical model for tensional wrinkling in thin sheets”, PNAS, 108(45):18227–18232, 2011.
H. King, R. D. Schroll, B. Davidovitch, and N. Menon. Elastic sheet on a liquid drop reveals wrinkling and crumpling as distinct symmetry-breaking instabilities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109(25):9716–20, June 2012.
Davidovitch B, Schroll RD, Cerda E., “Nonperturbative model for wrinkling in highly bendable sheets”, Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys, Vol. 6, No. 2, 066115, June 2012
Vincent Demery, Benny Davidovitch and Christian D. Santangelo, “Mechanics of large folds in thin interfacial films”, arXiv:1407.4092v2 [cond-mat.soft], 16 July 2014
Evan Hohlfeld and Benny Davidovitch, “A sheet on deformable sphere: ‘wrinklogami’ patterns suppress curvature-induced delamination”, arXiv:1411.5880v1 [cond-mat.soft], 20 November 2014
Michael Taylor, Benny Davidovitch, Zhanlong Qiu, Katia Bertoldi, “A comparative analysis of numerical approaches to the mechanics of elastic sheets”, arXiv:1411.6823v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], 25 November , 2014
Vella, D., Huang, J., Menon, N., Russell, T. P. & Davidovitch, B., “Indentation of ultrathin elastic films and the emergence of asymptotic isometry”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 014301 (2015).
D. Vella, H. Ebrahimi, A. Vaziri and B. Davidovitch, “Wrinkling reveals a new isometry of pressurized elastic shells”, EPL Journal (www.epljournal.org), Vol. 112, 24007, 2015, DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/112/24007
Dominic Vella, Hamid Ebrahimi, Joseph Paulsen, Ashkan Vaziri, Narayanan Menon, and Benny Davidovitch, “Poking around: how indentation reveals wrinkly isometries”, Abstract ID BAPS.2016.MAR.P40.2, Paper given at American Physical Society (APS) meeting on March 16, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, in Session P40: More Geometry and Dynamics: Wrinkling, Folding, Snapping, etc.
Joseph D. Paulsen, Vincent Demery, K. Bugra Toga, Zhanlong Qiu, Benny Davidovitch, Thomas P Russell and Narayanan Menon, “Geometry-driven folding transitions in floating thin films”, Abstract ID BAPS.2016.MAR.P40.3, Paper given at American Physical Society (APS) meeting on March 16, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, in Session P40: More Geometry and Dynamics: Wrinkling, Folding, Snapping, etc.
Joseph D. Paulsen, Evan Hohifeld, Hunter King, Jiangshui Huang, Zhanlong Qiu, Thomas P. Russell, Narayanan Menon, Dominic Vella and Benny Davidovitch, “Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Vol. 113, No. 5, February 2016
Yiwei Sun, Benny Davidovitch and Gregory Grason (University of Massachusetts – Amherst), “Wrinkling instability induced by imposed Gaussian curvature in the zero-tension limit”, Abstract ID BAPS.2016.MAR.P40.9, Paper given at American Physical Society (APS) meeting on March 16, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland, in Session P40: More Geometry and Dynamics: Wrinkling, Folding, Snapping, etc.
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