CV - Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld

Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld


EDUCATION:

	1989	PhD Theoretical Physics, Tel Aviv University
	1986	MSc (with honors) Physics, Tel Aviv University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

	2010-Present	Research Fellow, Inst. of Shock Physics, Imperial College London
	2005-Present	Research Fellow, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College London
	1998-Present	Long-Term Visiting Scientist, Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge University
	1997-1998	Project Leader, Molecular Simulations Inc., Cambridge, UK
	1996-1997	Research Scientist (with S. Orszag), Cambridge Hydrodynamics, Princeton, NJ, USA
	1993-1996	Director's Fellow (with A. R. Bishop), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1992-1993	Research Associate (with S. Torquato), Princeton University, NJ, USA
	1989-1992	Research Associate (with R. C. Ball), Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge University
	1987	Visiting Scientist (with B. B. Mandelbrot), IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS:

	2011	Undergraduate Research Bursary Nuffield URB/39915: 1440 GBP
	2010-2014	EPSRC EP/H051716/1: 271,432 GBP
	2010	Visiting Grant, Tsukuba University: 772,000 Yen
	2009-present	Teaching Associate and Life member, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
	2008-2011	Alan Howard Scholarship: 229,858 GBP
	2008-2009	EOARD Grant 083046: 50,000 USD
	2008	StatoilHydro Grant: 50,000 GBP
	2007-present	Member of the Room, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
	2005-2008	EPSRC Grant GR/T28959/01: 293,952 GBP
	1993-1996	Director's Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1990-1992	Leo Baeck Lodge Award
	1985, 88, 89	Weiler Foundation Scholarship Awards
	1989	Distinction Award, Tel Aviv University, Israel
	1982-1988	Scholarship Awards, Tel Aviv University, Israel


ORGANIZATIONAL / PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

	2011	Session Chair, Complexity in the Oil Industry, Inst. of Physics, Natal, Brazil, 14-18 November
	2008	Session Chair, Granular Gases: Beyond the Dilute Limit, Thurnau, Germany, 8-12 September
	2008	Session Chair and Discussion Leader, Structure and Packing in Gordon Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow, Waterville, Maine, US, 22-26 July
	2007	Session Chair, Reservoir Simulation in Universities Forum on Reservoir Description and Simulation (UFORDS), Scarborough, UK, 2-6 September
	2007	Organizer and Chairman, Workshop on Fractures, Complexity in the Oil Industry, Natal, Brazil, 5-9 August
	2007	Discussion leader, Slow dynamics of granular materials and modeling quasi-statics in Workshop on Jamming, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen CO, USA, 20 June - 3 August
	2007	Discussion leader, Stress transmission and isostaticity theory in Workshop on Jamming, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen CO, USA, 20 June - 3 August
	2004-2006	Organizer and Chairman, Working Group on Dimensional Reduction in many-variable systems within the EU COST action P10 Physics of Risk
	2004	Program Committee, SPIE conference Fluctuation and Noise, FaN2004, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 25-28 May
	2003	Chairman, Statics and Dynamics of Systems of Rigid Particles, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK 10 December
	2003	Organizing Committee, SPIE conference Fluctuation and Noise, FaN2003, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 1-4 June
	1999-2001	Specialist Subject Reviewer, Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education, UK
	2000	Organizing Committee Member, MESOMECHANICS2000, China
	1995	Organizer and Chairman, Workshop on Fractal Analysis and Model ling of Materials, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1994-1996	Organizer and Chairman, Working Group on Protein Dynamics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

INVITED COLLOQUIUA

	2011	Controlled force mediation in the cytoskeleton: A dream model awaiting experimental verification, Institut fur Experimentelle Physik, Universitat Ulm, Ulm, Germany
	2010	Da Vinci Fluid - a minimal model for flow of dense granular materials, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2010	From pore-scale structural characterization to macro-scale structure-property predictions, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2010	Da Vinci Fluid model for flow of dense granular materials, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
	2010	Understanding stress transmission in dense granular materials, Engineering Dept, Tokyo University, Japan
	2010	Lecture course: 1. Stress transmission in granular packs - why do conventional theories struggle? 2. Stress transmission in granular packs - isostaticity theory and beyond; 3. Entropic formalism for the statistics of granular packs; 4. Stresses and force chains in granular materials: misconceptions and new directions, Engineering Dept, Kyoto University, Japan
	2009	Stress transmission and incipient yield flow in dense granular materials, Civil Engineering Dept, Sydney University, Australia
	2009	Systematic derivation of structure-property relations in porous and cellular materials, Civil Engineering Dept, Sydney University, Australia
	2008	Stresses in Granular Systems: A paradigm of Complexity, Mathematics Dept, Brunel University, UK
	2008	Stresses in granular systems, ICP, Stuttgart University, Germany
	2008	The Rich Dynamics of Process Zone Limited Fracture Propagation in Heterogeneous Materials, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
	2008	Stresses in granular systems and yield flow, DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK
	2008	Applied Modelling and Computation Group (AMCG), Imperial College London, UK
	2008	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2008	School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
	2007	Physics Department, North Carolina State University, NC, USA
	2007	Physics Department, Duke University, NC, USA
	2006	Physics Department, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2006	Biology Department, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2006	Physics Department, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
	2006	Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
	2004	Department of Applied Mathematics, Bristol University, UK
	2004	Institute for Physics of Geological Processes, Oslo, Norway
	2004	Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
	2003	Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
	2003	Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
	2002	Engineering Department, Kings College, London, UK

	2001	Physics Department, Leeds University, Leeds, UK
	2000	Max Planck Institute, Golm, Germany
	1997	Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
	1996	Physics Department, Wake Forest University, NC, USA
	1996	Physics Department, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA
	1995	Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA
	1996	Physics Department, University of Texas El Paso, TX, USA
	1996	Physics Department, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM, USA
	1994	Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
	1994	Physics Department, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
	1993	Physics Department, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
	1992	Physics Department, Birmingham University, UK

INVITED PRESENTATIONS IN MEETINGS / CONFERENCES

	2011	Workshop on Fluctuations and Response in Active Materials: From Driven Granular Systems to Swarming Bacteria - Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 20-24 June
	2011	Consortium meeting on Pore-Scale Modelling - Imperial College London, London, UK 11 January
	2010	Gordon Conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media - Lewiston, ME, USA 11-16 July
	2010	Gordon Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow - Waterville, ME, USA 20-25 June
	2010	Mini-symposium on Fractured Reservoirs - Delft, Netherlands 10 June
	2010	PERM Affiliates meeting on Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics - Imperial College London, UK 7 June
	2010	Workshop on Particulate Matter: Does Dimensionality Matter? - Dresden, Germany 30 May - 4 June
	2010	Workshop on Granular Materials - Tsukuba, Japan 3-4 March
	2009	IUTAM-ISIMM Symposium on Mathematical Modeling and Physical Instances of Granular Flows - Reggio Calabria, Italy, 14-18 September
	2009	Workshop on Statistical Mechanics of Static Granular Media - Lorentz Centre, Leiden, The Nederlands, 6-10 July (Plenary Speaker)
	2009	Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Affiliates Meeting on Pore-scale modelling, London, UK, 22 June
	2008	Workshop on Flow in Porous Media - I, Brasilia, Brazil, 18-24 Oct
	2008	Workshop on Flow in Porous Media - II, Brasilia, Brazil, 18-24 Oct
	2008	Conference on Granular Gases: Beyond the Dilute Limit, Thurnau, Germany, 7-12 Sept
	2008	Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Affiliates Meeting on Pore-scale modelling, London, UK, 16 June
	2008	The BPI-Cavendish workshop, Cambridge, UK, 10 June
	2008	IOP Meeting on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2008, London, UK, 26-28 March
	2008	Air Force Office for Scientific Research and Air Force Research Lab Meeting on Particulate Mechanics in Extreme Environments, Eglin Florida, USA, 29-31 January
	2007	Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy on The Interface Between Atomistic and Continuum Theories, Houston, TX, 26-28 October
	2007	Universities Forum on Reservoir Description and Simulation (UFORDS) - I, Scarborough, UK, 2-6 September
	2007	Universities Forum on Reservoir Description and Simulation (UFORDS) - II, Scarborough, UK, 2-6 September
	2007	Conference on Complexity in the Oil Industry - I, Natal, Brazil, 5-9 August
	2007	Conference on Complexity in the Oil Industry - II, Natal, Brazil, 5-9 August
	2007	StatPhys Satellite meeting Statics and Dynamics of Granular Media and Colloidal Suspensions, Naples, Italy
	2007	Petroleum Engineering and Rock mechanics (PERM) Affiliates Meeting, Imperial College London
	2007	USAF Workshop Particulate Mechanics in Extreme Environments, University of Florida, FL, US, January 23-25
	2006	20th Canberra International Physics Summer School Granular Matter, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December
	2005	Summer School Econophysics and complexity, Academy of Economics Studies, Bucharest, Romania
	2004	Summer School Econophysics and complexity, Academy of Economics Studies, Bucharest, Romania
	2004	IMA Workshop Modeling of Soft Matter, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, US
	2004	IChemE meeting Behaviour of Structured Granular Materials Across Length Scales, Leeds, UK
	2003	Program Meeting, Physics of Risk, Nyborg, Denmark
	2003	Workshop Flow Regimes, Transitions and Segregation in Granular and Particle-laden Flows, Cambridge, UK

	2001	International conference on geometry, nonlinearity, and integrability in condensed matter and soft condensed matter physics, Bansko, Bulgaria
	1998	The Polymer Consortium Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK
	1997	77th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, USA
	1997	Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena in Transforming Solids, Penn State University, USA
	1996	Workshop on Fracture, Friction and Deformation, Los Alamos national Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1996	Workshop on Nonequilibrium Phase Transformations, Santa Fe, NM, USA
	1995	FRACTALS 95, Marseilles, France
	1996	MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA
	1994	Gordon conference on Fractals, San Miniato, Italy
	1994	Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems (NEEDS94), Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1994	MRS General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA
	1993	Fractals in Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
	1992	Forum in Compaction Forming Operations, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
	1994	NATO ASI Summer school Propagation of Correlations in Constrained Systems - I, Institute d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica, France
	1994	NATO ASI Summer school Propagation of Correlations in Constrained Systems - II, Institute d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica, France


STUDENTS

Years	Name and Dissertation or Research Title	Degree	Place of Employment
2011	Christopher Revell: "Shear flow of da Vinci Fluids"	MSc project
2011	Julian Ma: "Stress transmission in disc-like granular systems"	MSc project
2011	Harrison Steggles: "Dynamics of planar fractures in disordered media"	MSc project
2011	Yipei Guo: "Oscillatory shear flow of da Vinci Fluids"	MSc project
2011	William Handley: "Stress equations in isostatic and granular systems: hyperbolic or elliptic?"	Part III (Summer student)
2009	Simon Nathan: "Couette Flow of a da Vinci Fluid"	MSci project
2009	Harry R. Kennard: "The famous packing problem – ellipses"	MSci project
2010	Finn Grimwood: "Gravitational Flow of a DaVinci Fluid"	MSci project
2010	Joseph Jordan: "Computing entropy and ordering of granular materials: From description to prediction"	PhD
2010	Imbert Wang: "Coarse-graining the fabric tensor of the Isostaticity stress field equations"	Part II (Summer student)
2010	Zilvinas Rimas: "Characterisation of force chain networks"	Part II (Summer student)
2010	Chris Revell: "Characterisation of packing of ellipses"	Part II (Summer student)
2009	Rebecca Hihinashvili: "Morphological characterization of porous electrodes and membranes for fuel cells"	PhD
2009	Lauri Toikka: "The famous particle packing problem"	MSci project
2008	Anna Timoshina: "Statistics of force chain networks in granular systems - skeletonization"	MSci project
2008	Joe Jordan: "Statistics of force chain networks in granular systems"	MSci project
2008	Hannah Davies: "Shaken not Stirred: conductivity of shaken graphite particles" (with W. Proud)	MSci project
2008	Phil Tooke: "Structural analysis of deposited particles in two dimensions"	MSci project
2007	Michael Peyton-Jones: "Quantitative analysis of contact forces in a two-dimensional poly-distributed particle bed using photoelastic methods" (with W. Proud)	Summer student
2007	Ian Hewett: "A study of gas permeation through granular beds" (with W. Proud)	MSci project
2007	Arutchelvi Harichandran: "Distribution of heights on top of a granular pack"	MSc project
1994-5	Rudolph Held: "Characterization of, and flow in, porous media"	MSc summer student	HydroStatoil, Trondheim, Norway
1995	Yi Jiang: 1. "Growth of planar Laplacian surfaces" 2. "Parameter flow in coarse-graining of disordered systems"	PhD Summer student	Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA


PUBLICATIONS:
2012	R. Hihinashvili and R. Blumenfeld, Structural-entropic characteristics of dense planar granular systems, Granular Matter, to appear
2011	R. Blumenfeld and Sam F. Edwards, Theory of strains in auxetic materials, Festschrift for Prof. J. Friedel's 90th birthday; arXiv:1111.xxxx
2011	R. Blumenfeld, G. F. Grimwood, M. Schwartz, and Sam F. Edwards, Da Vinci Fluid as a model for dense granular flow, Granular Matter, submitted
2011	M. Schwartz and R. Blumenfeld, Plug flow formation and growth in da Vinci Fluids, Granular Matter 13, 241-245 (2011)
2010	R. Blumenfeld, Sam F. Edwards and M. Schwartz, Da Vinci Fluids, catch-up dynamics and dense granular flow, European J. Phys. E 32, 333-338 (2010)
2009	G. Frenkel, R. Blumenfeld, P. King, M. Blunt, Topological Analysis of Foams and Tetrahedral Structures, Adv. Eng. Mat. 11, 169-176 (2009)
2009	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, On granular stress statistics: compactivity, angoricity and some open issues, J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 3981-3987 (2009)
2008	M. Gerritsen, G. Kreiss, R. Blumenfeld, Stress chain solutions in two-dimensional isostatic granular systems: fabric-dependent paths, leakage and branching, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 098001 (2008)
2008	M. Gerritsen, G. Kreiss, R. Blumenfeld, Analysis of stresses in two-dimensional isostatic granular systems, Physica A 387, 6263-6276 (2008)
2008	G. Frenkel, R. Blumenfeld, Z. Grof, P. R. King, The structure and statistics of 2D granular systems, Phys. Rev. E. 77, 041304 (2008)
2007^*	G. Frenkel, R. Blumenfeld, P. R. King and M. Blunt, Topological Analysis of Foams and Tetrahedral Structures, in Proceedings of MetFoam 2007 - Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams, Montreal, Canada
2007^*	R. Blumenfeld, On entropic characterization of granular materials, in Lecture Notes in Complex Systems Vol. 8: Granular and Complex Materials, pp 43-53, eds. T. Aste, A. Tordesillas and T. D. Matteo (World Scientific 2007), Singapore)
2007^*	S. F. Edwards and R. Blumenfeld, Thermodynamics of granular materials, in Physics of Granular Materials, ed. A. Mehta (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007)
2007	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, Blumenfeld and Edwards Reply to Comment on "Granular Entropy: Explicit Calculations for Planar Assemblies", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 089402 (2007)
2007	R. Blumenfeld, Stresses in two-dimensional isostatic granular systems: Exact solutions, New Journal of Physics 9, 160 (2007)
2006	R. Blumenfeld, Isostaticity and action at a distance in the cytoskeleton - A model awaiting experimental evidence, Biophysical Journal 91, 1970 (2006)
2006	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, Geometric partition functions of cellular systems: Explicit calculation of the entropy in two and three dimensions, EuroPhys. J. E 19, 23 (2006)
2006	R. Blumenfeld, Auxetic strains - insight from iso-auxetic materials, Molecular Simulations 31, 867 (2005)
2006^*	R. Blumenfeld and P. King, Entropy-mediated structure-permeability relations in skeletal porous materials, in Proceedings of CMWR XVI 2006 - Computational Methods in Water Resources XVI International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005	R. Blumenfeld, S. F. Edwards and R. C. Ball, Granular matter and the marginal rigidity state, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 17, S2481 (2005)
2005^*	R. Blumenfeld, Stress transmission and isostatic states of non-rigid particulate systems, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 141: Modeling of Soft Matter, eds. M-.C.T. Calderer and E. M. Terentjev, (Springer-Verlag, New York 2005)
2004	R. Blumenfeld, Stresses in isostatic granular systems and emergence of force chains, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 118301 (2004)
2004	R. Blumenfeld, Stress in planar cellular solids: Coarse-graining the constitutive equation, Physica A 336, 361 (2004)
2003	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, From Plasticity to a renormalisation group, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 360 , 731 (2003)
2003	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, Granular entropy: Explicit calculations for planar assemblies, Phys.Rev. Lett. 90, 114303 (2003)
2003	R. Blumenfeld, Stress transmission in planar disordered solid foams, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, 2399-2411 (2003)
2002	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, The stress field in granular systems: Loop forces and potential formulation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115505 (2002)
2002	R. Blumenfeld, Dynamics of twists on antiferromagnetic spin chains: Theory, Eur. Phys. J. B 29, 261 (2002)
2001	R. Blumenfeld, Strange dynamics of domain walls and periodic stripes on antiferromagnetic chains, cond-mat/0108470 (2001)
2000	R. Blumenfeld and R. Balakrishnan, Exact multi-twist solutions for the Belavin-Polyakov equation and application to magnetic systems, J. Phys. A 33, 2459 (2000)
2000	R. Blumenfeld, Pulling a chain's leg: The pullout dynamics of entangled chains, Macromolecules 32, 1082 (2000)
1999	R. Blumenfeld, Hierarchical structure of domain walls in magnetic layers, Phase Transitions 69, 237 (1999)
1998	R. Blumenfeld, Dynamics of fracture propagation in the mesoscale: Theory, Theor. And Appl. Frac. Mech. 30, 209 (1998)
1998^*	R. Blumenfeld, Dynamics of fracture propagation in the mesoscale: Theory, in Proceedings of MESOMECHANICS98, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008)
1997	R. Balakrishnan and R. Blumenfeld, On the twist excitations in a classical anisotropic antiferromagnetic chain, Phys. Lett. A 237, 69 (1997)
1997	A.E. Garcia, R. Blumenfeld, G. Hummer and J. A. Krumhansl, Multi-Basin Dynamics of a Protein in a Crystal Environment, Physica D 107, 225, (1997)
1997	R. Balakrishnan and R. Blumenfeld, Transformation of general curve evolution to a modified Belavin-Polyakov equation, J. Math. Phys. 38, 5878 (1997)
1997	R. Blumenfeld and Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Mass fractal lacunarity, L\'evy dusts, Mittag-Leffler statistics, and perceived dimension, Phys. Rev. E 56, 112 (1997)
1997	R. Blumenfeld, Planar curve representation of many-body systems and dynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1203 (1997)
1997	B. L. Holian, R. Blumenfeld and P. Gumbsch, An Einstein model of brittle crack propagation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 78 (1997)
1996	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Strongly nonlinear composite dielectrics: a method for exact solution for the potential field and effective bulk properties - Addition, Phys. Rev. B 54, 9555 (1996)
1996	R. Blumenfeld, Nonequilibrium brittle fracture propagation: Steady state, oscillations and intermittency, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3703 (1996)
1996^*	A. E. Garcia, R. Blumenfeld, G. Hummer and J. Sobehart, Diffusion of a protein in configuration space, in Proceedings of The 9th Conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Eds. R.H. Sarma and M.H. Sarma (Adenine Press, Schenectady, NY 1996)
1996^*	S. Zhou, R. Blumenfeld, B. Holian and P. S. Lomdahl, Study of fiber composite failure criterion, in MRS Proceedings V409 Fracture-instability dynamics, scaling, and ductile/brittle behavior, Eds. R. L. Blumberg Selinger et al., (1996)
1995	R. Blumenfeld, Pattern formation in Laplacian growth: Theory, Center for Nonlinear Studies Newsletter 112, April (1995)
1995	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Two dimensional Laplacian growth as a system of creating and annihilating particles, Phys. Rev. E, Phys. Rev. E 51, 3434 (1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld and Robin C. Ball, Characterization of fractal and hierarchical morphologies beyond the fractal dimension, in Proceedings of the MRS General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld, A theory for the morphology of Laplacian growths from statistics of equivalent many-body systems, in Fractal Reviews in the Natural and Applied Sciences, Ed. M. M. Novak (Chapman-Hill, 1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld, A morphological theory for Laplacian nonlinear growth processes via statistics of equivalent many-body systems, in Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems (NEEDS94), Eds. V.G. Makhankov, A.R. Bishop, and D.D. Holm (World Scientific, 1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld, Towards a theory of growing surfaces: Mapping Laplacian growth onto Hamiltonian dynamics and statistics, in Fluctuations and Order: The New Synthesis, Ed. M. M. Millonas (Springer-Verlag, 1995)
1994	R. Blumenfeld, Formulating a first-principles statistical theory of growing surfaces in two-dimensional Laplacian fields, Phys. Rev. E 50, 2952 (1994)
1994	V. Milman, N. A. Stelmashenko and R. Blumenfeld, Fracture surfaces: A critical review and a morphological analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy measurements, Prog. Mater. Sci. 38, 425-474 (1994)
1994	R. Blumenfeld, Two dimensional Laplacian growth can be mapped onto Hamiltonian dynamics, Phys. Lett. A 186, 317-322 (1994)
1994^*	R. Blumenfeld, A theory for growing interfaces in Laplacian fields: a many-body formulation and statistical analysis, in Proceedings of the MRS General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (1994)
1993	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Quantifying morphology of scale-invariant structures beyond the fractal dimension, Fractals 1, 985-991 (1993)
1993	R. Blumenfeld and S. Torquato, A coarse-graining procedure to generate and analyze heterogeneous materials: Theory, Phys. Rev. E 48, 4492-4500 (1993)
1993	V. Milman, R. Blumenfeld, N. A. Stelmashenko and R. C. Ball, Experimental measurements of the roughness of brittle cracks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 204 (1993)
1993	R. Blumenfeld, Explicitly exact solutions for waves in a family of nonlinear media, Physica D 66, 7-13 (1993)
1993	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, A probe for morphology and hierarchical correlations in scale invariant structures, Phys. Rev. E 47, 2298-2302 (1993)
1993	J. Adler, A. Aharony, R. Blumenfeld, A. B. Harris and Y. Meir, The distribution of the logarithms of currents in percolating resistor networks, II. Series expansion, Phys. Rev. B 47, 5770-5782 (1993)
1993	A. Aharony, R. Blumenfeld and A. B. Harris, The distribution of the logarithms of currents in percolating resistor networks, I. Theory, Phys. Rev. B 47, 5756-5769 (1993)
1993	C. Bowen, D. L. Hunter, R. Blumenfeld and N. Jan, Magnetism and high Tc superconductors, J. Physique I France 3, 83-92 (1993)
1992	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Universal scaling of the stress field at the vicinity of a wedge crack in two dimensions and oscillatory self-similar corrections to scaling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2254 (1992)
1992	E. Duering, R. Blumenfeld, D. J. Bergman, A. Aharony and M. Murat, Current distributions in a two-dimensional random-resistor-network, J. Stat. Phys. 67, 113-121 (1992)
1992	R. Blumenfeld, An exact solution for electromagnetic waves in strongly nonlinear media, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 25, L275-L282 (1992)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Onset of scaling behaviour in 2D slow cracking, Modern Phys. Lett. B 5, 1567-1573 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Strongly nonlinear composite dielectrics: a method for exact solution for the potential field and effective bulk properties, Phys. Rev. B 44, 7378-7386 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Onset of scale-invariant pattern in growth processes: The cracking problem, Physica A 177, 407-415 (1991)
1991	R. C. Ball, P. W. H. Barker and R. Blumenfeld, Sidebranch selection in fractal growth, EuroPhys. Lett. 16, 47-52 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld, The functional form of the $T_c(x)$ line in the phase diagram of high temperature superconductors, Physica C 178, 119-124 (1991)
1991	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Exact results on exponential screening in two-dimensional diffusion limited aggregation, Phys. Rev. A 44, R828-R831 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Nonlinear susceptibilities of granular matter, Phys. Rev. B 43, 13682-13683 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld, Geometrical correlations and the origin of x values at the maximum and intersects of $T_c(x)$ in $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, J. de Physique 1, 159-166 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld, Phase coherence oscillation of holes in $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, dynamics of single holes in the $CuO$ plane and the typical pairing time, Physica A 168, 705-713 (1990); (Erratum) Physica {\bf A 180}, 462 (1991)
1990	G. Corsten, C. Liem, R. Blumenfeld and N. Jan, Pairing of holes via vortex/antivortex attraction in doped $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, J. de Physique 51, 2229-2233 (1990)
1990	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Reply to Comment on "Breakdown of multifractal behaviour in diffusion limited aggregates", Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1843 (1990)
1990	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Universal scaling of the stress field at the vicinity of a wedge crack in two dimensions and oscillatory self-similar corrections to scaling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 6, 1784-1787 (1990)
1990	R. Blumenfeld, Novel flux solutions in nonlinear continuum systems with negative dynamic resistance, Physica A 168, 697-704 (1990)
1990^*	R. Blumenfeld, Novel flux solutions in nonlinear conducting continuum systems with negative dynamic resistance, in Proceedings of the EPS-8 meeting Trends in Physics, Ed. F. Pleiter (1990)
1990^*	R. Blumenfeld, N. Jan, G. Corsten and C. Liem, Evidence for vortex/antivortex mediated pairing of holes in doped $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ and a possible mechanism for the holes movement, in Proceedings of the EPS-8 meeting Trends in Physics, Ed. F. Pleiter (1990)
1990^*	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Universal scaling of the stress field generated by a two dimensional wedge crack and periodic self-similar corrections to scaling, in Proceedings of the EPS-8 meeting Trends in Physics, Ed. F. Pleiter (1990)
1990^*	G. Corsten, C. Liem, R. Blumenfeld, N. Jan and C. Bowen, Vortex-antivortex pairing of holes in frustrated XY spin systems, in Correlations and connectivity, Eds. H. E. Stanley and N. Ostrowsky (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990)
1990^*	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Universally correlated scale-invariant sidebranching in propagation of a two-dimensional cracking growth, in Correlations and connectivity, Eds. H. E. Stanley and N. Ostrowsky (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990)
1989	O. Entin-Wohlman, U. Sivan, R. Blumenfeld and Y. Meir, Dynamic structure factor of fractals, Physica D 38, 93-97 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Exact calculation to second order of the effective dielectric constant of a strongly nonlinear composite, Phys. Rev. B 40, (Rapid Comm.) 1987-1989 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld, Universality and superuniversality of multifractals in nonlinear networks, J. Stat. Phys. 56, 233-241 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Breakdown of multifractal behaviour in diffusion limited aggregates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2977-2980 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Nonlinear dielectrics: electrostatics of random media and propagation of waves in a homogeneous slab, Physica A 157, 428-436 (1989)
1989	A. Aharony, R. Blumenfeld, P. Breton, B. Fourcade, A. B. Harris, Y. Meir and A. -M. S. Tremblay, Negative moments of currents in percolating resistor networks, Phys. Rev. 40, (Brief Report) 7318 (1989)
1988	U. Sivan, R. Blumenfeld, Y. Meir and O. Entin-Wohlman, Dynamic structure factor of a deterministic fractal, Europhys. Lett. 7, 249-253 (1988)
1988	R. Blumenfeld, Probability densities of homogeneous functions: Explicit approximation and applications to percolating networks, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 21, 815-825 (1988)
1987	Y. Meir, R. Blumenfeld, A. B. Harris and A. Aharony, Series analysis of randomly diluted nonlinear networks with negative nonlinearity exponent, Phys. Rev. B 36, 3950-3952 (1987)
1987	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Fluid flow in a random porous medium: A network model and effective medium approximation, J. Appl. Phys. 62, 1616-1621 (1987)
1987	R. Blumenfeld, Y. Meir, A. Aharony and A. B. Harris, Resistance fluctuations in randomly diluted networks, Phys. Rev. B 35, 3524-3535 (1987)
1986	Y. Meir, R. Blumenfeld, A. Aharony and A. B. Harris, Series analysis of randomly diluted nonlinear resistor networks, Phys. Rev. B 34, 3424-3428 (1986)
1986	R. Blumenfeld, Y. Meir, A. B. Harris and A. Aharony, Infinite set of exponents describing physics on fractal networks, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 19, L791-L796 (1986)	1989
1985	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Nonlinear resistor fractal networks, topological distances, singly connected bonds and fluctuations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 18, L443-L448 (1985)
1985^*	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Nonlinear resistor fractal networks, topological distances, singly connected bonds and fluctuations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 18, L443-L448 (1985)
1985^*	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Nolinear resistor fractal networks, in Scaling phenomena in disordered systems, Eds. R. Pynn and A Skjeltorp (Plenum, 1985)

^*	papers in proceedings or a book chapter