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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"SHAPE RECONFIGURATION"”.
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Self-folding bilayers: Mechanistic design principles for programmable and on-demand shape reconfiguration
Despite lacking muscle cells, plants demonstrate shape-transforming movements in response to environmental conditions for accomplishing tasks such as growth, defense, nutrition, and reproduction. Motivated by the fascinating behavior of plants, this dissertation investigates the programmable, …
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Influence of Surface Wettability on Drop Dynamics and Condensation
… with the liquid adopting a spherical cap shape. Two metrics are commonly employed to specify the surface wettability: rest or static contact angle (_) and contact angle hysteresis (__). Partially non-wettable surfaces are characterized by static contact angles _ > 90° while partially …
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An Experimental Study of the Fluid- Structure Interactions of Water Entry of Compliant Structures
… for this topic is on drag reduction due to shape reconfiguration of panels near the free surface to support further development of undulatory propulsors. Moreover, it has been an important concept in the study of the slamming of small high-speed craft with flexible bottom structures, such as …