Michael C Sostarecz

PUBLICATIONS

T. Podgorski, M. C. Sostarecz, S. Zorman, and A. Belmonte, “Fingering instabilities of an interfacial micellar gel”, Phys. Rev. E 76, 016202 (2007).

M. C. Sostarecz and A. Belmonte, “Beads-on-string phenomena of wormlike micellar fluids”, Phys. Fluids 16(9), L67-L70 (2004).

M. C. Sostarecz and A. Belmonte, “Motion and shape of a viscoelastic drop falling through a viscous fluid”, J. Fluid Mech. 497, 235-252 (2003).

M. C. Sostarecz and A. Belmonte, “Dynamics inside polymer drops:  From Dimple to Rayleigh Instability to Torus”, Phys. Fluids 15(9), S5 (2003).

L. Borucki, D. Alagoz, S. Hoogendoorn, S. Kakollu, M. Reznikoff, R. Schugart, and M. Sostarecz, “Modeling planarization in chemical-mechanical polishing”, IMA Preprint 1866-1 (2002).

INVITED TALKS

“Motion and shape of a falling polymer drop”, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, October 2007 (invited by Dr. Beth Hansen).

“Motion and shape of a falling polymer drop”, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, March 2005 (invited by Dr. John Zweck).

“Motion and shape of a falling polymer drop”, Colloquium, Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, April 2004 (invited by Dr. Scott V. Franklin).

“Motion and shape of a falling viscoelastic drop”, Applied Math Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, April 2004 (invited by Dr. Philip Broadbridge).

“Motion and shape of a falling polymer drop”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluid Physics Seminar, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, March 2004 (invited by Dr. George M. Homsy).

“Motion and shape of a falling polymer drop”, GREPHE Soft Matter / Grey Matter  Seminar, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France, February 2003 (invited by Dr. Thomas Podgorski).

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

“One dimensional models for bubble bursts on a tear film”, 58^th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, IL, November 2005 (talk).

“Beads-on-string phenomena in wormlike micellar fluids”, 57^th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, WA, November 2004 (talk).

“Motion and shape of a falling viscoelastic drop”, SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Los Angeles, CA, May 2004 (talk).

“A twist on beads-on-a-string”, 56^th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, East Rutherford, NJ, November 2003  (Gallery of Fluid Motion).

“Falling viscoelastic droplets”, Gordon Research Conference:  Nonlinear Science, Tilton, NH, August 2003 (poster).

“Dynamics inside polymer drops:  from dimple to Rayleigh instability to torus”, 55^th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Dallas, TX, November 2002 (winning poster in Gallery of Fluid Motion).

“Dimpled polymer drops”, 55^th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Dallas, TX, November 2002 (talk).