Recent and selected publications:
Note that not all the papers are acvailable in pdf format from this page but almost all of them are available from my full publication list. Also note that for my citation list and citation indices, such as H-Index and i10-Index, see Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t1e0xRQAAAAJ&hl=en .
- T. Matsushima and R. Blumenfeld,
Microstructural characteristics of planar granular solids / Abstract
Fundamental structural characteristics of planar granular assemblies: scaling away friction and initial state / Abstract
Granular statistical mechanics: volume-stress phase space, equipartition and equations of state / Abstract
(http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2977.pdf)
Inter-dependence of the volume and stress ensembles and equipartition in statistical mechanics of granular systems / Abstract
Structural-entropic characteristics of dense planar granular systems / Abstract
Theory of strains in auxetic materials / Abstract
Plug flow formation and growth in da Vinci Fluids / Abstract
Da Vinci Fluids, catch-up dynamics and dense granular flow / Abstract
Topological Analysis of Foams and Tetrahedral Structures / Abstract
On granular stress statistics: compactivity, angoricity and some open issues / Abstract
Structural characterization and statistical properties of two-dimensional granular systems / Abstract
Stress chain solutions in two-dimensional isostatic granular systems: fabric-dependent paths, leakage and branching / Abstract
On entropic characterization of granular materials / Abstract
Blumenfeld and Edwards Reply to Comment on "Granular Entropy: Explicit Calculations for Planar Assemblies"
Isostaticity and controlled force transmission in the cytoskeleton - a model awaiting experimental evidence / Abstract
Basic laws of granular materials / Abstract.
Auxetic strains - insight from iso-auxetic materials / Abstract
Geometric partition functions of cellular systems: Explicit calculation of the entropy in two and three dimensions / Abstract
Stress transmission and isostatic states of non-rigid particulate systems / Abstract
Granular matter and the mariginally rigid state / Abstract
Stresses in granular systems and emergence of force chains / Abstract
Stress in planar cellular solids and isostatic granular assemblies: Coarse-graining the constitutive equation / Abstract
From Plasticity to a renormalisation group / Abstract
Granular entropy: Explicit calculations for planar assemblies / Abstract
Stress transmission in planar disordered solid foams / Abstract
Dynamics of twists on antiferromagnetic spin chains: Theory / Abstract
The stress field in granular systems: Loop forces and potential formulation / Abstract
Large fluctuations of disentanglement forces and implication for polymer dynamics / Abstract
Strange dynamics of domain walls and periodic stripes on antiferromagnetic chains / Abstract
Exact multi-twist solutions to the Belavin-Polyakov equation and applications to magnetic systems / Abstract
(Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3)
Pulling a chain's leg: The pullout dynamics of entangled chains / Abstract
(Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5)
Hierarchical structure of domain walls in magnetic layers / Abstract
Dynamics of fracture propagation in the mesoscale: Theory / Abstract
Multi-Basin Dynamics of a Protein in a Crystal Environment / Abstract
On the twist excitations in a classical anisotropic antiferromagnetic chain / Abstract
Transformation of general curve evolution to a modified Belavin-Polyakov equation / Abstract
Mass fractal lacunarity, Lèvy dusts, Mittag-Leffler statistics, and perceived dimension / Abstract
Planar curve representation of many-body system dynamics / Abstract
An Einstein model of brittle crack propagation / Abstract
Nonequilibrium brittle fracture propagation: Steady state, oscillations and intermittency / Abstract
Two dimensional Laplacian growth as a system of creating and annihilating particles Abstract
In preparation and unfinished papers:
- R. Blumenfeld and S. Edwards, Compactivity, angoricity and statistics of microstates of granular systems / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Skeletonization of bi-continuous structures by functional minimization / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld and S. Courty, The puzzle of hyperbolic stresses in cellular structures / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Theory of stress transmission in three-dimensional isostatic granular systems / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Cohesionless granular systems as two-phase stato-elastic composites / Abstract
- R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, New equations for plastic yield of granular media / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Disentaglement dynamics and applications to deformations in polymer glasses and interfaces / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Dynamics of ribbons in three dimensions / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Position dependent velocities of twists along inhomogeneous antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chains / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Hysteretic force response in single chain pullout / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Can we quantify a failure criterion for glassy and solid polymers / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, An algorithm for the minimal path length in random networks using a variational analysis / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Textures in two-dimensional ferromagnetic Heisenberg systems / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld and D. Sherrington, Classical inhomogeneous Heisenberg spin chains: Some exact low energy solutions and statistics / Abstract
- R. Blumenfeld, Strange dynamics of domain walls and periodic stripes along classical antiferromagnetic chains / Abstract
Grant
- "Skeletonisation, entropic characterisation and conductivity-permeability relationship in porous media", EPSRC Grant GR/T28959/01.
Raphael Blumenfeld:
Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
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Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
&
Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK