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PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Séminaire PMMH – Vincent Bertin (IUSTI, U. Aix-Marseille)
The interplay between elastic and fluid stresses arises in a wide range of physical systems, often leading to rich and non-trivial dynamics. In this seminar, we explore two such scenarios in thin-film flows, with applications to friction and adhesion.
In the first part, we focus on the lubrication transition—the shift between frictional and lubricated contact. We show experimentally that introducing viscoelastic stresses via dilute polymer solutions significantly alters or delays this transition. Similarly,
in dense granular flows, coating particles with a soft polymeric layer dramatically modifies their frictional behaviour. Motivated by these findings, we propose a unified mean-field model that captures the essential features of the lubrication transition across
both systems.
In the second part, we investigate viscous adhesion—the effective adhesion between two soft surfaces separated by a thin liquid film. Despite the absence of direct contact, we show that the elastic response to viscous suction leads to an “adhesion without contact”
mechanism. This process exhibits striking analogies with classical JKR adhesion, yet arises purely from fluid-structure interactions.
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Recent seminars (6)
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Séminaire PMMH – Daniel Tam (TU Delft)
Vendredi 13 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Vincent Bertin (IUSTI, U. Aix-Marseille)
Vendredi 6 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - José Halloy (LIED, Univ. Paris Cité)
Vendredi 23 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Energy Transition and Earth System Dynamics : Quantifying Long-Term Sustainability Trajectories for Human Societies
This talk explores how current industrial technologies - linear, extractive, and ecologically disruptive - must be replaced by systems designed in harmony with the Earth's living metabolism. Framing the planet as a dynamic, interdependent system rather than a passive resource pool leads to a fundamental rethinking (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - José Halloy (LIED, Univ. Paris Cité)
Vendredi 23 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Energy Transition and Earth System Dynamics : Quantifying Long-Term Sustainability Trajectories for Human Societies
This talk explores how current industrial technologies - linear, extractive, and ecologically disruptive - must be replaced by systems designed in harmony with the Earth's living metabolism. Framing the planet as a dynamic, interdependent system rather than a passive resource pool leads to a fundamental rethinking (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Julien Scheibert (LTDS, EC Lyon)
Vendredi 16 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Metainterfaces : how to design a rough contact that obeys a specific friction law ?
Many devices, including touchscreens and robotic hands, involve frictional contacts. Optimizing those devices requires fine control of the interface's friction law. We lack systematic methods to create dry contact interfaces whose frictional behaviour satisfies preset specifications. In this seminar, I will present (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Julien Scheibert (LTDS, EC Lyon)
Vendredi 16 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Metainterfaces : how to design a rough contact that obeys a specific friction law ?
Many devices, including touchscreens and robotic hands, involve frictional contacts. Optimizing those devices requires fine control of the interface's friction law. We lack systematic methods to create dry contact interfaces whose frictional behaviour satisfies preset specifications. In this seminar, I will present (…)
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
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