Publications

Granular flow

• "Collisions and Fluctuations for Granular Materials,"
  B. Painter, S. Tennakoon, and R. P. Behringer, Proceedings of NATO conference: Physics of Dry Granular Media, Cargese, Corsica, France (1997).




• "Friction Based Segregation of a 2D Granular Assembly,"
  L. Kondic, S. Tennakoon, B. Painter, and R. Behringer, Proceedings of the Materials Res. Soc. 543

Taylor-Couette flow

• "Effects of spatial disorder on the transition to Taylor vortex flow",
  B. D. Painter and R. P. Behringer, Europhys. Lett. 44, 599-605 (1998).




• "Pattern formation in an inhomogeneous environment",
  W. Zimmermann, B. Painter, and R. Behringer, Eur. Phys. J. B 5, 757-770 (1998).

Presentations

• "Measurements of two dimensional granular cooling,"
  American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 51st Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 22-24, 1998.
  

  abstract

  slides: pdf (215 k), ps (132 k)




• Poster presentation: "Experimental measurement of two dimensional granular collisions,"
  17th Annual International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: "Dynamics Days '98," Chapel Hill, NC, Jan. 7-10, 1998.

  poster: pdf (136 k), ps (185 k)




• "Experimental measurement of two dimensional granular collapse,"
  American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 50th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 23-25, 1997.
  

  abstract

  slides: pdf (93 k), ps (137 k)

• "Effects of random and periodic spatial inhomogeneities on the transition to Taylor vortex flow,"
  American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 51st Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 22-24, 1998.
  

  abstract

  slides: pdf (231 k), ps (318 k)




• Poster presentation: "Effects of spatial inhomogeneities on the onset of Taylor-Vortex Flow,"
  17th Annual International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: "Dynamics Days '98," Chapel Hill, NC, Jan. 7-10, 1998.

  poster: pdf (136 k), ps (185 k)




• "Effects of spatial inhomogeneities on the transition to Taylor vortex flow in the Taylor-Couette system,"
  American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 50th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 23-25, 1997.
  

  abstract

  slides: pdf (158 k), ps (218 k)




• "Localization of rolls near onset in a Taylor-Couette cell with spatial perturbations,"
  American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 49th Annual Meeting, Syracuse, NY, Nov. 24-26, 1996.
  

  abstract

  slides: pdf (142 k), ps (182 k)




• "Effect of Spatial Perturbations on Pattern Selection at the onset of Couette-Taylor Flow,"
  American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 48th Annual Meeting, Irvine, CA, Nov. 19-21, 1995.
  

  abstract