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BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Séminaire PMMH — Lorène Champougny, LGC Toulouse
The Fluid Mechanics of Splatter Painting
In art, splatter painting consists in subjecting a paint-loaded brush to an acceleration (for example by “flicking” the brush or tapping its handle) to detach paint droplets or filaments. Those are projected onto the substrate to be painted, leaving filamentary or spotty patterns (Fig. 1a). In this technique, perhaps most emblematically used by American painters Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) and Sam Francis (1923-1994), the brush never touches the canvas, and tuning the final pattern becomes a challenge for the artist.
In this seminar, I will present our recent efforts to unravel the physical phenomena at play in splatter painting. We perform series of experiments on real and simplified brushes (Fig. 1b), subjected to a controlled impact on their handle. The amount of expelled liquid and the resulting patterns are characterized as a function of the liquid viscosity and brush acceleration. In combination with a model of the unsteady flow in the anisotropic, porous tip of the brush, these experiments allow us to identify different splatting regimes and help us understand how splatter painting artists adjust their working conditions.
Figure 1 – (a) Artwork based on splatter painting by Caroline Champougny. “Sunday Afternoon” (acrylic paint on paper, 15 x 20.5 cm), 2022, used with permission. (b) Liquid ejection caused by an impact on brush handle for a round commercial brush loaded with a 20% glycerol/water mixture (top), and for a “simplified brush”, made of a flexible capillary tube of internal diameter 0.2 mm, filled with water (bottom).
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Séminaire PMMH — Mathis Guéneau, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Vendredi 2 octobre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Spatiotemporal Characterization of Active Dynamics in Channels : Theory and Experiments
Swimming microorganisms often live in confined, complex environments, where they transition between bulk and near-surface dynamics. Their dynamics can be quantified in terms of first-passage statistics. In this talk, I will first consider active Brownian dynamics between two walls. Using a systematic expansion, (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ada Altieri (MSC, Paris)
Vendredi 20 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
From disordered Generalized Lotka-Volterra models to gut microbiome complexity
Inferring species interactions in highly heterogeneous ecological communities and developing a robust, predictive theory of ecological stability remain major challenges, due both to the amount of data required and the complexity of the underlying interaction network. In this talk, I will present a high-dimensional (…)
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.
- Séminaires ESPCI-ENS de biophysique
- Séminaires du Département de Physique de l’ENS
- Séminaires du Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web FAST)
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web LIMSI)
- Séminaire de Mécanique des Fluides de l’Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Séminaires du laboratoire MSC, Paris VII
- Séminaires Gulliver
PhD defense
Auriane Huyghues-Despointes : 22/09 - 14h30
Sébastien Kuchly : 23/09 - 14h
Juliette Michaud : 28/09 - 14h
Diane Komaroff : 02/10 - 14h
Marc Vacher : 13/10
Jules Tampier : 16/10 - 13h30
Alex Le Guen : 01/12 - 14h
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