Publications

Refereed Articles

D. Vella, J. A. Neufeld, H. E. Huppert and J. R. Lister, Leakage from gravity currents in a porous medium. Part 2: A line sink, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2010).

J. A. Neufeld, D. Vella, H. E. Huppert and J. R. Lister, Leakage from gravity currents in a porous medium. Part 1: A localized sink,Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2010).

D. Vella, M. Adda-Bedia and E. Cerda, Capillary wrinkling of elastic membranes, Soft Matter 6, 5778 (2010).

D. Vella and J. Li, The impulsive motion of a small cylinder at an interface, Phys. Fluids 22, 052104 (2010).

J. A. Neufeld, D. Vella and H. E. Huppert, The effect of a fissure on storage in a porous medium, J. Fluid Mech. 639, 239 (2009).

D. Vella, A. Boudaoud and M. Adda-Bedia, Statics and Inertial Dynamics of a Ruck in a Rug, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 174301 (2009).

D. Vella, J. Bico, A. Boudaoud, B. Roman and P. M. Reis, The Macroscopic Delamination of Thin Films from Elastic Substrates, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 10901 (2009).

P. Cicuta and D. Vella, Granular Character of Particle Rafts, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138302 (2009).

D. Vella and J. S. Wettlaufer, Explaining the Patterns Formed by Ice Floe Interactions, J. Geophys. Res. 113, C11011 (2008).

M. Adda-Bedia, E. Katzav and D. Vella, Solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for hard hyperspheres in even dimensions, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 144506 (2008).

J. Chopin, D. Vella and A. Boudaoud, The Liquid Blister Test, Proc. R. Soc. A 464, 2887 (2008).

D. Vella, Floating Objects with Finite Resistance to Bending, Langmuir 24, 8701 (2008).

M. Adda-Bedia, E. Katzav and D. Vella, Solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for hard disks, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 184508 (2008).

D. Vella and H. E. Huppert, The waterlogging of floating objects, J. Fluid Mech. 585, 245 (2007).

D. Vella and P. D. Metcalfe, Surface tension dominated impact, Phys. Fluids 19, 072108 (2007).
Also selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, 1st August 2007

D. Vella and J. S. Wettlaufer, Finger rafting: A generic instability of floating elastic sheets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 088303 (2007).

D. Vella and L. Mahadevan, Reply to comment by Yeung and Moran, Europhys. Lett. 77, 16003 (2007).

D. Vella, D.-G. Lee and H.-Y. Kim, The load supported by small floating objects, Langmuir 22, 5979 (2006).

D. Vella H.-Y. Kim, P. Aussillous and L. Mahadevan, Dynamics of surfactant-driven fracture of particle rafts, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 178301 (2006).

D. Vella and H. E. Huppert, Gravity currents in a porous medium at an inclined plane, J. Fluid Mech. 555, 353 (2006).

D. Vella, D.-G. Lee and H.-Y. Kim, Sinking of a horizontal cylinder, Langmuir 22, 2972 (2006).

D. Vella, P. D. Metcalfe and R. J. Whittaker, Equilibrium conditions for the floating of multiple interfacial objects, J. Fluid Mech. 549, 215 (2006).

D. Vella and L. Mahadevan, A simple microscopic model for the dynamics of adhesive failure, Langmuir 22, 163 (2006).

D. Vella and L. Mahadevan, The 'Cheerios effect', Am. J. Phys. 73, 817 (2005).

D. Vella, P. Aussillous and L. Mahadevan, Elasticity of an interfacial particle raft, Europhys. Lett. 68, 212 (2004).

D. Vella, H.-Y. Kim and L. Mahadevan, The wall-induced motion of a floating flexible train, J. Fluid Mech. 502, 89 (2004).

Other Writings and Reports

D. Vella The Fluid Mechanics of Floating and Sinking, PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge (2007).

S. Chiu-Webster, R. Dyson, D. Parker, D. Vella, R. Whittaker and D. Allwright, The pull-off test for viscoelastic soft solids, In Report of the 59th European Study Group with Industry (2007).

D. Vella, On thin ice: the mechanics of failure in sea ice, Proceedings of the WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, 249 (2006).

C. Bailey et al., Wax deposition in oil pipelines, In Report of the 56th European Study Group with Industry (2006).

M. Aguareles et al., Shimmy in aircraft landing gear, In Report of the 56th European Study Group with Industry (2006).

D. Vella, The physics of floating, Eureka 57, 26 (2006).

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