Publications

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R. Hunt, E. Silver, and D. M. Harris. FIEVel: A Fast InExpensive Velocimeter based on an optical mouse sensor.  arXiv:2410.23176. GitHub.
Certified Open Hardware UID US002695.
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J.-W. Barotta, G. Pucci, E. Silver, A. Hooshanginejad, and D. M. Harris. Synchronization of wave-propelled capillary spinners.  arXiv:2409.06652.
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R. Hunt, R. Camassa, R. M. McLaughlin, and D. M. Harris. Diffusion-limited settling of highly porous particles in density-stratified fluids.  arXiv:2409.02419.
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S. J. Thomson, J.-W. Barotta, and D. M. Harris. Nonequilibrium capillary self-assembly.  arXiv:2309.01668.
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J. T. Antolik, J. L. Belden, N. B. Speirs, and D. M. Harris. Formation of undulatory cavities during hydroelastic water entry. Physical Review Fluids. 2024; In Press.
Poster Winner of 2023 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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M. Lewis, E. Silver, R. Hunt, and D. M. Harris. OpenFlume: An accessible and reproducible benchtop flume for research and education. HardwareX. 2024; 20 : e00583. Full Text. Preprint. GitHub.
Certified Open Hardware UID US002638.
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Presentation recording from Teardown 2024.
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A. Hooshanginejad, J.-W. Barotta, V. Spradlin, G. Pucci, R. Hunt, and D. M. Harris. Interactions and pattern formation in a macroscopic magnetocapillary SALR system of mermaid cereal. Nature Communications. 2024; 15 : 5466. Full Text. Preprint. GitHub.
Selected as Editors’ Highlight.
Video Winner
of 2023 Gallery of Soft Matter
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A. U. Oza, G. Pucci, I. Ho, and D. M. Harris. Theoretical modeling of capillary surfer interactions on a vibrating fluid bath. Physical Review Fluids. 2023; 8(11) : 114001. Full Text. Preprint.
Selected as Featured in Physics.
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I. Ho, G. Pucci, A. U. Oza, and D. M. Harris. Capillary surfers: wave-driven particles at a vibrating fluid interface. Physical Review Fluids. 2023; 8(11) : L112001 (Letter). Full Text. Preprint.
Selected as Editors’ Suggestion and Featured in Physics.
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Video Entry to 2020 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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J. T. Antolik, J. L. Belden, N. B. Speirs, and D. M. Harris. Slamming forces during water entry of a simple harmonic oscillator. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2023; 974 : A23. Full Text. Corrigendum. GitHub. Preprint.
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J. T. Antolik, A. Howard, F. Vereda, N. Ionkin, M. Maxey, and D. M. Harris. Hydrodynamic irreversibility of
non-Brownian suspensions in highly confined duct flow. 
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2023; 974 : A11. Full Text. GitHub. Preprint.
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R. Hunt, Z. Zhao, E. Silver, J. Yan, Y. Bazilevs, and D. M. Harris. Drag on a partially immersed sphere at the capillary scale.  Physical Review Fluids. 2023; 8(8) : 084003. Full Text. GitHub. Preprint.
Selected as Editors’ Suggestion.
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J.-W. Barotta, S. J. Thomson, L. F. L. Alventosa, M. Lewis, and D. M. Harris.  Bidirectional wave-propelled capillary spinners.  Communications Physics. 2023; 6 : 87. Full Text. Preprint.

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L. F. L. Alventosa, R. Cimpeanu, and D. M. Harris.  Inertio-capillary rebound of a droplet impacting a fluid bath. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2023; 958 : A24. Full Text. Cover. GitHub: (Model, DNS). Preprint.

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E. A. Agüero, L. Alventosa, D. M. Harris, and C. A. Galeano-Rios.  Impact of a rigid sphere onto an elastic membrane. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 2022; 478 : 20220340. Full Text. Preprint.

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E. Rhee, R. Hunt, S. J. Thomson, and D. M. Harris. SurferBot: A wave-propelled aquatic vibrobot.  Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2022; 17 : 055001. Full Text. Preprint.

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Video Entry to 2022 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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A. Das, M. Styslinger, D. M. Harris, and R. Zenit. Force and torque-free helical tail robot to study low Reynolds number microorganism swimming. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2022; 93(4) : 044103.
Full Text. Repository. Preprint.

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I. Ho, A. H. Kumar, and D. M. Harris. Reconfigurable mechanical vibrations laboratory kit. Journal of Open Hardware. 2022; 6(1): 4. Full Text. GitHub. Preprint.

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R. L. Howard, F. Bernardi, M. Leff, E. Abele, N. L. Albritton, and D. M. Harris. Passive control of silane diffusion for gradient application of surface properties. Micromachines. 2021; 12(11) : 1360.  Full Text.

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D. M. Harris, K. Schlueter-Kuck, E. Austin, and K. Cohen. Course-based undergraduate research in upper-level engineering electives: A case study. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research. 2021; 22(3) : 46-55.  Full Text.

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A. H. Kumar, S. J. Thomson, T. R. Powers, and D. M. Harris. Taylor dispersion of elongated rods. Physical Review Fluids. 2021; 6(9) : 094501. Full Text. Preprint.
Selected as Editors’ Suggestion.
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G. Lee, A. Luner, J. Marzuola, and D. M. Harris. Dispersion control in pressure-driven flow through bowed rectangular microchannels. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 2021; 25 : 34. Full Text. Preprint.
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C. A. Galeano-Rios, R. Cimpeanu, I. A. Bauman, A. MacEwen, P. A. Milewski, and D. M. Harris. Capillary-scale solid rebounds: experiments, modelling and simulations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2021; 912 : A17. Full TextPreprint.
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J.-H. Kim, R. Puranik, J. K. Shang, and D. M. Harris.  Robust transferrable superhydrophobic surfaces. Surface Engineering. 2020; 36 (6) : 614-620. Full Text
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R. Camassa, D. M. Harris, R. Hunt, Z. Kilic, and R. M. McLaughlin. A first-principle mechanism for particulate aggregation and self-assembly in stratified fluids. Nature Communications. 2019; 10 (1). Full Text
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Video Entry to 2019 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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I. Ho, G. Pucci, and D. M. Harris. Direct Measurement of Capillary Attraction between Floating Disks. Physical Review Letters. 2019; 123 (25). Full Text

Selected as Editors’ Suggestion and Featured in Physics.
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A. W. Taylor and D. M. Harris.  Optimized commercial desktop cutter technique for rapid-prototyping of microfluidic devices and application to Taylor dispersion. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2019; 90 (11) : 116102. Full Text
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G. Pucci, I. Ho, and D. M. Harris.  Friction on water sliders. Scientific Reports. 2019; 9 : 4095. Full Text
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N. Ionkin and D. M. Harris.  Note: A versatile 3D-printed droplet-on-demand generator. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2018; 89 (11) : 116103. Full Text
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A. Halev and D. M. Harris. Bouncing ball on a vibrating periodic surface. Chaos. 2018; 28 (9) : 096103. Full Text
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D. M. Harris, P.-T. Brun, A. Damiano, L. M. Faria, and J. W. M. Bush. The interaction of a walking droplet and a submerged pillar: From scattering to the logarithmic spiral. Chaos. 2018; 28 (9) : 096105. Full Text
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M. Aminian, F. Bernardi, R. Camassa, D. M. Harris, R. M. McLaughlin. The Diffusion of Passive Tracers in Laminar Shear Flow. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2018; (135). Full Text
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M. DiSalvo, D. M. Harris, S. Kantesaria, A. N. Peña, J. D. Allbritton-King, J. H. Cole, and N. L. Allbritton. Characterization of Tensioned PDMS Membranes for Imaging Cytometry on Microraft Arrays. Analytical Chemistry. 2018; 90 (7) : 4792-4800. Full Text
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G. Pucci, D. M. Harris, L. M. Faria, and J. W. M. Bush. Walking droplets interacting with single and double slits. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2018; 835 : 1136-1156 .  full text
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A. U. Oza, E. Siéfert, D. M. Harris, J. Moláček, and J. W. M. Bush. Orbiting pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability. Physical Review Fluids. 2017; 2 (5) .  full text
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B. G. McBennett and D. M. Harris. Horizontal stability of a bouncing ball. Chaos. 2016; 26 (9) : 093105.  full text
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M. Aminian, F. Bernardi, R. Camassa, D. M. Harris, and R. M. McLaughlin. How boundaries shape chemical delivery in microfluidics. Science. 2016; 354 (6317) : 1252-1256.  full text
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D. M. Harris, G. Pucci, V. Prost, J. Q. Casal and J. W. M. Bush. Merger of a bubble and a soap film. Physical Review Fluids. 2016; 1 (5) .  full text
Milton van Dyke Video Winner of 2015 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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P.-T. Brun, D. M. Harris, V. Prost, J. Quintela and J. W. M. Bush. Shedding light on pilot-wave phenomena. Physical Review Fluids. 2016; 1 (5).  full text
Gallery Video Winner of 2015 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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R. Camassa, D. M. Harris, D. Holz, R. M. McLaughlin, K. Mertens, P.-Y. Passaggia and C. Viotti. Variable density vortex ring dynamics in sharply stratified ambient fluids. Physical Review Fluids. 2016; 1 (5) .  full text
Milton van Dyke Poster Winner of 2015 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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A. P. Damiano, P.-T. Brun, D. M. Harris, C. A. Galeano-Rios and J. W. M. Bush. Surface topography measurements of the bouncing droplet experiment. Experiments in Fluids. 2016; 57 (10).  full text
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L. D. Tambasco, D. M. Harris, A. U. Oza, R. R. Rosales and J. W. M. Bush. The onset of chaos in orbital pilot-wave dynamics. Chaos. 2016; 26 (10) : 10310.  full text
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D. M. Harris, J. Quintela, V. Prost, P.-T. Brun and J. W. M. Bush. Visualization of hydrodynamic pilot-wave phenomena. Journal of Visualization. 2016; 20 (1) : 13-15 .  full text
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D. M. Harris, T. Liu and J. W. M. Bush. A low-cost, precise piezoelectric droplet-on-demand generator. Experiments in Fluids. 2015; 56 (4).  full text
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D. M. Harris and J. W. M. Bush. Generating uniaxial vibration with an electrodynamic shaker and external air bearing. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2015; 334 : 255-269.  full text
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G. Pucci, D. M. Harris and J. W. M. Bush. Partial coalescence of soap bubbles. Physics of Fluids. 2015; 27 (6) : 061704 .  full text
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C. H. K. Williamson, T. Leweke, D. J.  Asselin and D. M. Harris. Phenomena, dynamics and instabilities of vortex pairs. Fluid Dynamics Research. 2014; 46 (6) : 061425 .  full text
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A. U. Oza, D. M. Harris, R. R. Rosales and J. W. M. Bush. Pilot-wave dynamics in a rotating frame: on the emergence of orbital quantization. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2014; 744 : 404-429 .  full text
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A. U. Oza, Ø. Wind-Willassen, D. M. Harris, R. R. Rosales and J. W. M. Bush. Pilot-wave hydrodynamics in a rotating frame: Exotic orbits. Physics of Fluids. 2014; 26 (8) : 082101 .  full text
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D. M. Harris and J. W. M. Bush. Droplets walking in a rotating frame: from quantized orbits to multimodal statistics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2013; 739 : 444-464 .  full text
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Ø. Wind-Willassen, J. Moláček, D. M. Harris and J. W. M. Bush. Exotic states of bouncing and walking droplets. Physics of Fluids. 2013; 25 (8) : 082002 .  full text
Selected as a Research Highlight of 2013
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  D. M. Harris and J. W. M. Bush. The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets. Physics of Fluids. 2013; 25 (9) : 091112 .  full text
Gallery Video Winner of 2012 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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D. M. Harris, J. Moukhtar, E. Fort, Y. Couder and J. W. M. Bush. Wavelike statistics from pilot-wave dynamics in a circular corral. Physical Review E. 2013; 88 (1) .  full text
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D. M. Harris and C. H. K. Williamson. Instability of secondary vortices generated by a vortex pair in ground effect. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2012; 700 : 148-186 .  full text
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D. M. Harris, V. A. Miller and C. H. K. Williamson. A short wave instability caused by the approach of a vortex pair to a ground plane. Physics of Fluids. 2010; 22 (9) : 091106 .  full text
Gallery Poster Winner of 2009 Gallery of Fluid Motion
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V. A. Miller, D. M. Harris and C. H. K. Williamson. Briefing: Interaction of a counter-rotating vortex pair with the ground. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering and Computational Mechanics. 2009; 162 (4) : 181-183 .  full text