https://www.shreyasmandre.com/tags/adhesion/ Recent content in Adhesion on Shreyas Mandre Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shreyasmandre.com/publications/poulain2022/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shreyasmandre.com/publications/poulain2022/ Adhesive contact between a thin elastic sheet and a substrate arises in a range of biological, physical and technological applications. By considering the dynamics of this process that naturally couples fluid flow, long-wavelength elastic deformations and microscopic adhesion, we analyse a sixth-order thin-film equation for the short-time dynamics of the onset of adhesion and the long-time dynamics of a steadily propagating adhesion front. Numerical solutions corroborate scaling laws and asymptotic analyses for the characteristic waiting time for adhesive contact and for the speed of the adhesion front.