Brian Utter -- Publications and Presentations

B. Utter and R.P. Behringer, "Transients in granular shear" (accepted to EPJE, Mar. 2004).
[link to preprint]
B. Utter, R. Ragnarsson, and E. Bodenschatz, "An experimental apparatus and sample preparation for directional solidification" (in preparation, 2004)
B. Utter and E. Bodenschatz, "Doublon growth in solidification" (submitted to PRE, Mar. 2004)
[link preprint (pdf)]
T.Majmudar, B. Utter, and R.P. Behringer, " Quantitative vector force measurements in photoelastic granular packings " (in preparation, 2004)
B. Utter and R.P. Behringer, "Self-diffusion in dense granular shear flows," Physical Review E 69, 031308 (2004).
[link to article]
B. Utter and E. Bodenschatz, "Dynamics of low anisotropy morphologies in directional solidification" Physical Review E 66, 051604 (2002)
[link to article]
B. Utter, R. Ragnarsson, E. Bodenschatz, "Alternating tip splitting in directional solidification," Physical Review Letters 86, 4604 (2001).
[link to article]
R. Ragnarsson, B. Utter, and E. Bodenschatz. "Superdendrites in directional solidification of polymer-solvent mixtures," in Phase Transitions and Systems Driven Far from Equilibrium, ed. En Ma, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 481, p. 65 (1998)
[download pdf (540 kb)]
B. Utter and R. A. Bartynski, "Photoelectron diffraction at low energies: the applicability of single scattering calculations," Surface Science Letters, v. 370, p. 226 (1997)

"Sliding Friction on a 2D Photoelastic Granular Bed," talk presented at the Newton Institute Workshop on Flow Regimes, Transitions and Segregation in Granular and Particle-laden Flows, 2003
[pdf soon available]
"Diffusion and Elastic Energy Measurements in Dense Granular Shear," talk presented at the Newton Institute Workshop on Flow Regimes, Transitions and Segregation in Granular and Particle-laden Flows, 2003
[download pdf (12 mb)]
"Diffusion and Elastic Energy Measurements in Dense Granular Matter," talk presented at the American Physical Society March Meeting, 2003
[download pdf (1.6 MB)]
[download gzipped postscript (2.8 MB)]
"Shearing of Granular Materials: Probing a New State of Matter," talk at Swarthmore College (job talk, 2002)
"Shearing in Dense Granular Matter," talk presented at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, 2002
[download gzipped postscript (2.9 MB)]
[download pdf (2.0 MB)] (text may be a little buggy)
"Shearing in Dense Granular Matter," poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Granular & Granular-Fluid Flow, 2002
[download gzipped postscript (2.5 MB)]
"Low Anisotropy Growth in Directional Solidification", poster presented at Dynamics Days, 2001
[download gzipped postscript (1.5 MB)]
"Dynamics of 'Seaweed' Growth in Directional Solidification", Thin Films Seminar, Duke University, 2001 (invited)
"Granular Physics", talk presented at ADVANCE Seminar for Women in Science, Duke University, 2001 (invited)
"Tip Splitting and Seaweed Growth in Directional Solidification," talk presented at the American Physical Society, March Meeting, 2001.
"Dynamics of Seaweed Growth in Directional Solidification," talk (job seminar, 2001) presented at
-- Georgetown University
-- Duke University
-- University of Chicago
-- Franklin and Marshall College
-- State University of New York at Oswego
-- Sandia National Labs
"Directional Solidification: From Seaweeds to Airplanes," talk presented at Summer Mumbles, Cornell University, 2000.
"Dynamics of Seaweed Growth in Directional Solidification," talk presented at the American Physical Society, March Meeting, 2000.
"Weed Morphology in Directional Solidification Experiments of Succinonitrile-Poly(Ethylene Oxide)," talk presented at the American Physical Society, March Meeting, 1999.
"Superdendrites in Directional Solidification of Polymer-Solvent Mixtures," poster presented at the Materials Research Society, Fall Meeting, 1998.

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