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
- R. Hihinashvili and R. Blumenfeld,
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
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Pulling a chain's leg: The pullout dynamics of entangled chains / Abstract
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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