Domaines
Statistical physics
Physics of liquids
Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
Hydrodynamics/Turbulence/Fluid mechanics
Type of internship
Expérimental Description
Thermal avalanches serve as a unifying mechanism for heterogeneous flows in disordered materials and glassy systems. The dynamical heterogeneities in these materials, which reflect the interplay between endogenous mechanical noise and exogenous thermal noise, have primarily been studied theoretically in the context of creep flows of pinned elastic manifolds and in simulations of super-cooled liquids, with the notable exception of the logarithmic aging of crumpled sheets. The aim of the internship and the PhD thesis is to investigate the effect of finite temperature on the depinning transition of a contact line, utilizing a combination of controlled laboratory experiments, theoretical analysis, and numerical simulations.
Contact
Kristina Davitt