Publications

Nonu Varghese, Thomas C. Sykes, Miguel A. Quetzeri-Santiago, Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita, J. Rafael Castrejón-Pita (2024). Effect of surfactants on the splashing dynamics of drops impacting smooth substrates. Langmuir.

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Hangyu Chen, Thomas C. Sykes, Oguzhan Kivan, Xiaodong Jia, Michael Fairweather, Timothy N. Hunter (2023). Simulation of bidisperse colloidal centrifugal sedimentation using a mixture viscosity model. Phys. Fluids.

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Thomas C. Sykes, Radu Cimpeanu, Ben D. Fudge, J. Rafael Castrejón-Pita, Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita (2023). Droplet impact dynamics on shallow pools. J. Fluid Mech..

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Waqas Kamal, Alva C.J. Orr, Thomas C. Sykes, Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita, Steve J. Elston, Stephen M. Morris (2023). On-demand pitch tuning of printed chiral nematic liquid crystal droplets. Mater. Today Adv..

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Sunghwan Cho, Justin P. Coon, Thomas C. Sykes, Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita (2022). Intersymbol interference for electrophoretic molecular communication in circular duct channels. IEEE Commun. Lett..

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Thomas C. Sykes, Ben D. Fudge, Miguel A. Quetzeri-Santiago, J. Rafael Castrejón-Pita, Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita (2022). Droplet splashing on curved substrates. J. Colloid Interface Sci..

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Sunghwan Cho, Thomas C. Sykes, Justin P. Coon, Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita (2022). Electrophoretic molecular communication with time-varying electric fields. Nano Commun. Networks.

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Karrar H. Al-Dirawi, Khaled H. A. Al-Ghaithi, Thomas C. Sykes, J. Rafael Castrejón-Pita, Andrew E. Bayly (2021). Inertial stretching separation in binary droplet collisions. J. Fluid Mech..

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Thomas C. Sykes (2020). Internal dynamics of coalescing droplets. PhD Thesis.

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Thomas C. Sykes, David Harbottle, Zinedine Khatir, Harvey M. Thompson, Mark C.T. Wilson (2020). Substrate wettability influences internal jet formation and mixing during droplet coalescence. Langmuir.

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Thomas C. Sykes, Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita, J. Rafael Castrejón-Pita, David Harbottle, Zinedine Khatir, Harvey M. Thompson, Mark C.T. Wilson (2020). Surface jets and internal mixing during the coalescence of impacting and sessile droplets. Phys. Rev. Fluids.

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Evangelia Antonopoulou, Connor F. Rohmann-Shaw, Thomas C. Sykes, Olivier J. Cayre, Timothy N. Hunter, Peter K. Jimack (2018). Numerical and experimental analysis of the sedimentation of spherical colloidal suspensions under centrifugal force. Phys. Fluids.

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