Lou Kondic
Distinguished Professor, Mathematical Sciences
- lou.kondic@njit.edu
- 973-596-2996
- 515A Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Born in Zagreb, Croatia. Completed B.Sc. in Physics at University of Zagreb in 1989, and Ph.D in Physics at CCNY/CUNY, New York. At NJIT since 1999.
Education
Ph.D.; City University of New York; Physics; 1995
Awards & Honors
2022 Da Vinci Fellowship, Twente University
2020 Sigma Xi Invited Membership, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honors Society
2020 Excellence in Resarch Prize and Medal, NJIT
2017 Luis Federico Leloir Award, Secretariat for Science Technology and Innovation, Argentina
2017 Fellowship, American Physical Society
2013 Excellence in Research Award, CSLA/NJIT
Website
2026 Fall Courses
MATH 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MATH 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
MTSE 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTSE 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Teaching Interests
Development of interdisciplinary curriculum for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses emphasizing hands-on experience for students; introduction of research into teaching.
Past Courses
MATH 111: CALCULUS I
MATH 112: CALCULUS II
MATH 211: CALCULUS III A
MATH 213: CALCULUS III B
MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA - HONORS
MATH 440: ADV APPL NUMERICAL METH
MATH 450: METHODS OF APPLIED MATH
MATH 450: METHODS OF APPLIED MATH HONORS
MATH 450: METHODS OF APPLIED MATH-HONORS
MATH 451: HONORS- METHODS APPL MATH II
MATH 451: METHODS APPL MATH II
MATH 451: METHODS APPL MATH II - HONORS
MATH 599: TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS
MATH 614: NUMERICAL METHODS I
MATH 715: MATHEMATICAL FLUID DYNAMICS I
MATH 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
Research Interests
Modeling: 1. Fluid Mechanics}: thin films; coating flows; liquid-solid interaction; micro and nano scale fluidics; multiphase problems including phase change;
2. Granular Matter: dense granular systems; effects of microstructure on macro properties; energy propagation.
Computing: Numerical solution of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations of
hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptic type; Molecular dynamics;
2. Granular Matter: dense granular systems; effects of microstructure on macro properties; energy propagation.
Computing: Numerical solution of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations of
hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptic type; Molecular dynamics;
In Progress
Instabilities of fluid films on nanoscale
Liquid metal instabilities
Networks and topology of granular materials and suspensions
Nucleating and crystal growth of colloidal systems
Conference Abstract
"Identifying the universal domain size required for an accurate description of porous media"
Proceedings of Mathematical Structure in Data: Topology, Geometry and Applications Workshop, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2026.
Proceedings of Mathematical Structure in Data: Topology, Geometry and Applications Workshop, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2026.
"Robustness of Persistent Homology when Noising and Denoising 3D Images"
Proceedings of Mathematical Structure in Data: Topology, Geometry and Applications Workshop, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2026.
Proceedings of Mathematical Structure in Data: Topology, Geometry and Applications Workshop, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2026.
"Quest for a hot stable nanobubble in acoustic Field"
Proceedings of the Nanbobubbles 2026 Conference, August, 2026.
Proceedings of the Nanbobubbles 2026 Conference, August, 2026.
"Network-based modeling of fluid flow through membranes"
6th International Conference on Soft Materials, November, 2024.
6th International Conference on Soft Materials, November, 2024.
"Manufacturing of 3D colloidal crystals for infrared photonics in low-earth orbit "
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), November, 2023.
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), November, 2023.
"Forming colloidal crystals in microgravity"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
"The role of concentration-dependent viscosity on the dynamics of colloid-polymer mixtures"
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.
Journal Article
Yifan Li, Mark Fasano, Avital Einhorn, Javier Diez, Ofer Manor, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2026. "Using surface acoustic waves to drive thin film flow over an obstacle." Proceedings of the Royal Society A, vol. 482, pp. 20260147.
Ensela Mema, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2026. "interfacial dynamics of a bi-layer system with a large viscosity ratio: a simple mathematical modal." Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 159, pp. 13.
Mark Fasano, Yifan Li, Javier Diez, Ofer Manor, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2026. "Dynamics of a three-dimensional oil drop driven by a surface acoutic wave over topolgraphy." European Physical Journal E, vol. 49, pp. 54.
Marco de Paoli, Sergia Pirozolli, Catherin Lalu, Lou Kondic. 2026. "Flow morphology and patterns in porous media convection: A persistent homology analysis." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 1039, pp. A7.
Ryan Allaire, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2026. "Controlling Breakup of a Liquid Filament: From Edge Melting to Thermal Scissors." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 1037, pp. A59.
Binan Gu, Pejman Sanaei, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2026. "Stochastic Modeling of Filtration with Sieving." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 1035, pp. A28.
Matthew Illingworth, Binan Gu, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2026. "On the influence of topology on performance of pore networks in membrane filters." Physical Review E, vol. 113, pp. 024301.
Linda J. Cummings, Binan Gu, Lou Kondic. 2026. "Filtration in Pore Networks." Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 58, pp. 221.
Mark Fasano, Yifan Li, Javier Diez, Joseph d'Addesa, Ofer Manor, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2025. "Modeling the dynamics of an oil drop driven by a surface acoustic wave in the underlying substrate." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 1022, pp. A49.
Lauren Barnes, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V Meyer, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity." npj Microgravity , vol. 11, pp. 63, 13.
Jesus Merino Marcos, Yifan Li, Mark Fasano, Javier Diez, Linda J. Cummings, Ofer Manor, Lou Kondic. 2025. "Monte Carlo-based model for the extraction of oil from oil-water mixtures using wetting and surface acoustic waves." Physical Review E, vol. 112, pp. 025502.
Yifan Li, Jesus Merino Marcos, Mark Fasano, Javier Diez, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic, Ofer Manor. 2025. "Using wetting and ultrasonic waves to extract oil from oil/water mixtures." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 700, pp. 138442.
Mark Fasano, Javier Diez, Ofer Manor, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2025. "Phase separation of binary fluid mixture under external force." J. Eng. Mechanics, vol. 152, pp. 12.
Jimmie Adriazola, Binan Gu, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2025. "Fractal dimension of non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw flow subject to Saffman-Taylor instability." Physical Review E, vol. 110, pp. 065107.
Ryan Allaire, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2025. "Using thermal crowding to direct pattern formation on the nanoscale." Physical Review Letters, vol. 133, pp. 214003.
Kia Taghizadeh, Stefan Luding, Rituparna Basak, Lou Kondic. 2025. "Understanding slow compression of frictional granular particles by network analysis." Soft Matter, vol. 20, pp. 6440.
Srujal Shah, Anna Mosquera Gomez, Payman Jalali, Lou Kondic. 2025. "Origins of reverse Janssen effect." Phys. Rev. E, vol. 110, pp. 064901.
Javier Diez, Alejandro Gonzalez, Lou Kondic. 2024. "On dewetting and concentration evolution of thin binary fluid films." J. Fluid Mechanics, vol. 999, pp. A55.
Kia Taghizadeh, Stefan Luding, Rituparna Basak, Lou Kondic. 2024. "Understanding slow compression of frictional granular particles by network analysis." Soft Matter, vol. 20, pp. 6440.
Rituparna Basak, Ryan Kozlowski, Luis Pugnaloni, Miro Kramar, Joshua Socolar, Manuel Carlevaro, Lou Kondic. 2023. "Evolution of force networks during stick-slip motion of an intruder in a granular material: Topological measures extracted from experimental data." Phys. Rev. E, vol. 108, pp. 064903.
Lenka Kovalcinova, Alex Taranto, Lou Kondic. 2024. "Properties of interaction networks in compressed two and three dimensional particulate systems." Granular Matter, vol. 26, pp. 11.
Philip Bretz, Lou Kondic, Miroslav Kramar. 2023. "Stochastic methods for slip prediction in a sheared granular system." Physical Review E, vol. 107, pp. 054901.
Binan Gu, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2023. "Flow through pore-size graded membrane pore network." Phys. Rev. Fluids , vol. 8, pp. 044502.
Yixuan Sun, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2022. "Filtration with Multiple Species of Particles." Transport in Porous Media, vol. 5, pp. 044306.
Binan Gu, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2022. "Network-based membrane filters: Influence of network and pore size variability on filtration performance." J. Membrane Science, vol. 657, pp. 120668.
Binan Gu, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2022. "A Graphical Representation of Membrane Filtration." SIAM J. Appl. Math., vol. 82, pp. 950.
Ryan Allaire, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2022. "Influence of thermal effects on the breakup of thin films of nanometric thickness." Phys. Rev. Fluids, vol. 7, pp. 064001.
Miro Kramar, Cheng Chao, Rituparna Basak, Lou Kondic. 2022. "On intermittency in sheared granular systems." Soft Matter, vol. 18, pp. 3583.
Stefan Luding, Rituparna Basak, Kia Taghizadeh, Lou Kondic. 2022. "Understanding slow compression and decompression of frictionless soft granular matter by network analysis." Soft Matter, vol. 18, pp. 1868.
Luis Pugnaloni, Manuel Carlevaro, Ryan Kozlowski, Hu Zheng, Lou Kondic, Joshua Socoloar. 2022. "Universal features of the stick-slip dynamics of an intruder moving through a confined granular medium." Physical Review E Letters, vol. 105, pp. L042902.
Michael A Lam, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V Meyer. 2021. "Role of diffusion in crystallization of hard-sphere colloids." Physical Review E, vol. 104, pp. 104, 054607 .
Lukas Hauer, Wu Wong, A. Sharifi-Aghili, Lou Kondic, Doris Vollmer. 2021. "Frost spreading and pattern formation on microstructured surfaces." Phys. Rev. E, vol. 104, pp. 044901.
Te-Sheng Lin, Joshua Dijksman, Lou Kondic. 2021. "Thin liquid films in a funnel." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 924, pp. A26.
Chao Cheng, Aghil Zadeh, Lou Kondic. 2021. "Correlating the force network evolution and dynamics in slider experiments." European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, vol. 140, pp. 02007.
Lukas Hauer, Wu Wong, Valentina Donadei, Katarina J. Hegner, Lou Kondic, Doris Vollmer. 2021. "How Frost Forms and Grows on Lubricated Micro- and Nanostructured Surfaces." ACS Nano, vol. 15, pp. 4658-4668.
Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2021. "Instabilities of nematic liquid crystal films." Curries. Opin. Colloid In., vol. 455, pp. 101478.
Rituparna Basak, Manuel Carlevaro, Ryan Kozlowski, Chao Cheng, Luis Pugnaloni, Miroslav Kramar, Hu Zheng, Joshua Socolar, Lou Kondic. 2021. "Two Approaches to Quantification of Force Networks in Particulate Systems." J. Eng. Mech. , vol. 147, pp. 040211100.
Ryan Allaire, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2021. "On efficient asymptotic modelling of thin films on thermally conductive substrates." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 915, pp. A133.
Javier Diez, Alejandro Gonzalez, David Garfinkel, Philip Rack, James Mckeown, Lou Kondic. 2021. "Simultaneous Decomposition and Dewetting of Nanoscale Alloys: A Comparison of Experiment and Theory." Langmuir, vol. 37, pp. 2575-2585.
Ryan Allaire, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings, Philip Rack, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera. 2021. "The Role of Phase Separation on Rayleigh-Plateau Type Instabilities in Alloys." Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 125, pp. 5723.
Ensela Mema, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2021. "Dielectrowetting of a thin nematic liquid crystal layer." Physical Review E, vol. 103, pp. 032702.
Miroslav Kramar, Lenka Kovalcinova, Konstantin Mischaikow, Lou Kondic. 2021. "Quantitative measure of memoryloss in complex spatiotemporal systems." Chaos, vol. 31, pp. 033126.
Michael Lam, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2020. "Effects of spatially-varying substrate anchoring on instabilities and dewetting of thin Nematic Liquid Crystal films." Soft Matter, vol. 16, pp. 10187.
Srujal Shah, Chao Cheng, Payman Jalali, Lou Kondic. 2020. "Failure of confined granular media due to pullout of an intruder: from force networks to a system wide response." Soft Mater, vol. 16, pp. 7685.
Binan Gu, Dilan Renaud, Pejman Sanai, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2020. " On the influence of pore connectivity on performance of membrane filters." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 902, pp. A5.
Yixuan Sun, Pejman Sanaei, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2020. "Modeling and design optimization for pleated membrane filters." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 044306.
Abhinendra Signh, Marcio Gameiro, Lou Kondic, Konstantin Mischaikow, Jeffrey Morris. 2020. "Interaction network analysis in shear thickening suspensions." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 5, pp. 034307.
Manuel Carlevaro, Ryan Kozlowski, Luis Pugnaloni, Hu Zheng, Joshua Socolar, Lou Kondic. 2020. "Intruder in a two-dimensional granular system: Effects of dynamic and static basal friction on stick-slip and clogging dynamics." Physical Review E, vol. 101, pp. 012909.
Lou Kondic, Alejandro Gonzalez, Javier Diez, Jason Fowlkes, Philip Rack. 2020. "Liquid-State Dewetting of Pulsed-Laser-Heated Nanoscale Metal Films and Other Geometries." Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 52, pp. 235-262.
William Batson, Linda J. Cummings, David G. Shirokoff, Lou Kondic. 2019. "Oscillatory instability of liquid films nonlocally heated from below." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 872, pp. 928-962.
Lou Kondic. 2019. "Energy Propagation through dense granular systems." Granular Matter, vol. 21, pp. 85.
Ryan Allaire, A. Dhakane, R. Emery, P. Ganesh, P. Rack, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings, M. Fuentes-Cabrera. 2019. "Surface, Interface, and Temperature Effects on the Phase Separation and Nanoparticle Self Assembly of Bi-Metallic Ni0.5Ag0.5: A Molecular Dynamics Study." Nanomaterials, vol. 9, pp. 1040.
Michael A Lam, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2019. "Computing dynamics of thin films via large-scale GPU-based simulations." Journal of Computational Physics X, vol. 2, pp. 100001.
Valeria Barra, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2019. "Thin viscoelastic dewetting films of Jeffreys type subject to gravity and substrate interactions." European Physics Journal E, vol. 42, pp. 12.
Michael Lam, , Lou Kondic. 2018. "Computing dynamics of thin films via large scale GPU-based simulations." Journal of Computational Physics X, vol. 2, pp. 100001.
L. Kovalcinova, S. Karmakar, M. Schaber, A.-L. Schuhmacher, M. DiMichiel, M. Brinkmann, R. Seemann, Lou Kondic, . 2018. "Energy dissipation in sheared wet granular assemblies." Physical Review E, vol. 98, pp. 032905.
Ingrith Cuellar , Pablo Ravazzoli, Javier Diez, Alejandro Gonzalez, Nicolas Roberts, Jason Fowlkes, Philip Rack, Lou Kondic. 2018. "Self-assembly of a drop pattern from a two-dimensional grid of nanometric metallic filaments." Physical Review E, vol. 98, pp. 043101 1- 12.
Ensela Mema, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2018. "Director gliding in a nematic liquid crystal layer: Quantitative comparison with experiments." Physical Review E, vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 032704.
Michael A Lam, Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic. 2018. "Stability of thin fluid films characterized by a complex form of effective disjoining pressure." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 841, pp. 925-961.
Dijksman Joshua, Lenka Kovalcinova, Jie Ren, Robert Behringer, Miro Kramar, Konstantin Mischaikow, Lou Kondic. 2018. "Characterizing granular networks using topological metrics." Physical Review E, vol. 97, pp. 042903.
Takahashi Tadanaga, Abe Clark, Trush Majmudar, Lou Kondic. 2018. "Granular response to impact: Topology of the force networks." Physical Review E, vol. 97, pp. 042903.
Ivana Seric, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2018. "Influence of thermal effects on stability of nanoscale films and filaments on thermally conductive substrates." Physics of Fluids, vol. 30, pp. 012109.
Ivana Seric, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2017. "Direct numerical simulation of variable surface tension flows using a Volume-of-Fluid method." Journal of Computional Physics, vol. 352, no. 1, pp. 615-636.
Christopher Hartnett, Ivana Seric, Kyle Mahady, Lou Kondic, Shahriar Afkhami , Jason Fowlkes, Philip Rack. 2017. "Exploiting the Marangoni Effect to Initiate Instabilities and Direct the Assembly of Liquid Metal Filaments." Langmuir, vol. 33, pp. 8123.
Lou Kondic, Miroslav Kramar, Lenka Kovalcinova, Konstantin Mischaikow. 2017. "Evolution of force networks in dense granular systems close to jamming." European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, vol. 140, pp. 15014.
Francesc Font, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2017. "Substrate melting during laser heating of nanoscale metal films." Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, vol. 113, pp. 237.
Ensela Mema, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2017. "Effects of flexoelectricity and weak anchoring on a Freedericksz transition cell." Physical Review E, vol. 95, pp. 012701.
Valeria Barra , Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2016. "Interfacial dynamics of thin viscoelastic films and drops." Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 237, pp. 26-38.
Kyle Mahady, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2016. "A numerical approach for the direct computation of flows including fluid-solid interaction: modeling contact angle, film rupture, and dewetting." Physics of Fluids, vol. 28, pp. 062002.
Nanyi Dong, Lou Kondic. 2016. "Instability of nanometric fluid films on a thermally conductive substrate." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 1, pp. 063901.
Lenka Kovalcinova, Arnaud Goullet, Lou Kondic. 2016. "Scaling properties of force networks for compressed particulate systems." Physical Review E, vol. 93, pp. 042903.
Luis Pugnaloni, Manuel Carlevaro, Miroslav Kramar, Konstantin Mischaikow, Lou Kondic. 2016. "Structure of force networks in tapped particulate systems of disks and pentagons. I. Clusters and loops." Physical Review E, vol. 93, pp. 062902.
Lou Kondic, Miroslav Kramar, Luis Pugnaloni, Manuel Carlevaro, Konstantin Mischaikow. 2016. "Structure of force networks in tapped particulate systems of disks and pentagons. II. Persistence Analysis." Physical Review E, vol. 93, pp. 062903.
Abraham Clark, Lou Kondic, Robert Behringer. 2016. "Steady Flow Dynamics during Granular Impact." Physical Review E, vol. 93, pp. 050901(R).
Ensela Mema, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2015. "Substrate induced gliding in a nematic liquid crystal layer." Physical Review E, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 062513.
Svetozar Nesic, Rodolfo Cuerno, Esteban Moro, Lou Kondic. 2015. "Fully nonlinear dynamics of stochastic thin film dewetting." Physical Review E, vol. 93, pp. 061002(R).
C Hartnett, K Mahady, J Fowlkes, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic, P Rack, . 2015. "Instability of nano and microscale liquid metal filaments: Transition from single droplet collapse to multi-droplet breakup." Langmuir, vol. 31, pp. 13609-13617.
Thomas G Anderson, Ensela Mema, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2015. "Transitions in Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystal." International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, vol. 75, pp. 15-21.
Kyle Mahady , Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2015. "On the influence of initial geometry on the evolution of liquid filaments." Physics of Fluids, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 092104.
Lenka Kovalcinova, Arnaud Goullet, Lou Kondic. 2015. "Percolation and jamming transitions in particulate systems with and without cohesion." Physical Review E, vol. 92, pp. 032204.
P. Mort, J. Michaels, R. Behringer, C. Campbell, Lou Kondic, M. Kheiripour Langroudi, M. Shattuck, J. Tang, G. Tardos, C. Wassgren. 2015. "Dense granular flow — A collaborative study." Powder Technology, vol. 284, pp. 571.
Michael Hein, Shahriar Afkhami , Ralf Seemann, Lou Kondic. 2015. "Capillary focusing close to a topographic step: Shape and instability of confined liquid filaments." Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 18, no. 5-6, pp. 911-917.
Kyle Mahady, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2015. "A volume of fluid method for simulating fluid/fluid interfaces in contact with solid boundaries." Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 294, pp. 43–257.
S Nesic, Lou Kondic, R Cuerno, E Moro. 2015. "Dynamics of thin fluid films controlled by thermal fluctuations." E. Phys. J. Spec. Topics, vol. 224, pp. 379.
Lou Kondic, N Dong, Y Wu, J Fowlkes, P Rack. 2015. "Instabilities of nanoscale patterned metal films." E. Phys. J. Spec. Topics, vol. 224, pp. 369.
A Clark, A Petersen, Lou Kondic, R Behringer. 2015. "Nonlinear Force Propagation During Granular Impact." Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 114, pp. 144502.
Miroslav Kramar, Arnaud Goullet, Lou Kondic, Konstantin Mischaikow. 2014. "Evolution of force networks in dense particulate media." Physical Review E, vol. 90, pp. 052203.
M Kramar, A Goullet, Lou Kondic, K Mischaikow. 2014. "Quantifying force networks in particulate systems." Physica D, vol. 283, pp. 37.
Linda J. Cummings, Ensela Mema, Chenjing Cai, Lou Kondic. 2014. "Electric field variations within a nematic liquid crystal layer." Physical Review E, vol. 90, pp. 012503.
Y. Wu, N Dong, J Fowlkes, Lou Kondic, M Vincenti, D de Ceglia, P Rack. 2014. "Directed Liquid Phase Assembly of Highly Ordered Metallic Nanoparticle Arrays." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 6, pp. 5836.
J Fowlkes, N Roberts, Y Wu, J Diez, A Gonzalez, C Hartnett, K Mahady, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic, P Rach. 2014. "Hierarchical nanoparticle ensembles synthesized by liquid phase directed self-assembly." Nano Letters, vol. 14, pp. 774.
Lou Kondic. 2014. "Simulations of Two Dimensional Hopper Flow." Granular Matter, vol. 16, pp. 235.
M Kramar, A Goullet, Lou Kondic, K Mischaikow. 2013. "Persistence of force networks in compressed granular media." Phys. Rev. E, vol. 87, pp. 042207.
Kyle Mahady, Shahriar Afkhami , Javier Diez, Lou Kondic. 2013. "Comparison of Navier-Stokes simulations with long-wave theory: study of wetting and dewetting." Physics of Fluids, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 17 pages.
A Gonzalez, J Diez, Lou Kondic. 2013. "Stability of a liquid ring on a substrate." J. Fluid Mechanics, vol. 718, pp. 4450.
Te-Sheng Lin, Linda J. Cummings, Andrew J Archer, Lou Kondic, Uwe Thiele. 2013. "Note on the hydrodynamic description of thin nematic films: strong anchoring model." Physics of Fluids, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 082102.
Linda J. Cummings, Chenjing Cai, Lou Kondic. 2013. "Bifurcation properties of nematic liquid crystals exposed to an electric field: switchability, bistability & multistability." Physical Review E, vol. 88, pp. 012509.
Te-Sheng Lin, Lou Kondic, Uwe Thiele, Linda J. Cummings. 2013. "Modelling spreading dynamics of liquid crystals in three spatial dimensions." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 729, pp. 214-230.
Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic. 2013. "Numerical simulation of ejected molten metal-nanoparticles liquefied by laser irradiation: Interplay of geometry and dewetting." Physical Review Letters, vol. 111, no. 3, pp. 034501 (5 pages).
Nicholas Roberts, Jason Fowlkes, Kyle Mahady, Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic, Philip Rack. 2013. "Directed Assembly of One- and Two-Dimensional Nanoparticle Arrays from Pulsed Laser Induced Dewetting of Square Waveforms." ACS Applied materials & Interfaces, vol. 5, pp. 4450-4456.
Linda J. Cummings, Chenjing Cai, Lou Kondic. 2013. "Towards an optimal model for a bistable nematic liquid crystal display device." Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 21-38.
Alejandro Gonzalez, Javier Diez, Yueying Wu, Jason Fowlkes, Philip Rack, Lou Kondic. 2013. "Instability of liquid Cu films on a SiO2 substrate,." Langmuir, vol. 29, pp. 9378.
T. Nguyen, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Javier Diez, Alejandro Gonzalez, Lou Kondic, Philip Rack. 2012. "Competition between collapse and breakup in nanometer-sized thin rings using molecular dynamics and continuum modeling." Langmuir, vol. 28, pp. 13960.
Abraham Clark, Lou Kondic, Robert Behringer. 2012. "Particle Scale Dynamics in Granular Impact." Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, pp. 238302.
Jason Fowlkes, Lou Kondic, Javier Diez, Alejandro Gonzalez, Yueying Wu, Nick Roberts, Chris McCold, Philip Rack. 2012. "Parallel Assembly of Particles and Wires on Substrates by Dictating Instability Evolution in Liquid Metal Films." Nanoscale, vol. 4, pp. 7376.
Javier Diez, Alejandro Gonzalez, Lou Kondic. 2012. "Instability of a transverse liquid rivulet on an inclined plane." Physics of Fluids, vol. 24, pp. 032104.
Te-Sheng Lin, Lou Kondic. 2012. "Thin hanging films with fronts: three dimensional flow." Physics of Fluids, vol. 24, pp. 022105.
Lou Kondic, Xiaoni Fang. 2012. "Microstructure Evolution during Impact on Granular Matter." Physical Review E, vol. 85, pp. 011305.
Lou Kondic, Arnaud Goullet. 2012. "Topology of force networks in compressed granular media." Europhysics Letters, vol. 97, pp. 54001.
Te-Sheng Lin, Lou Kondic, Linda J. Cummings. 2012. "Defect modeling in spreading nematic droplets." Physical Review E, pp. 012702.
Jason Fowlkes, Lou Kondic, Javier Diez, Yueying Wu, Philip Rack. 2011. "Self versus Directed assembly of Nanoparticles via Pulsed Laser Induced Dewetting of Patterned Metal Films." Nanoletters, vol. 11, pp. 2478-2485.
Linda J. Cummings, Te-Sheng Lin, Lou Kondic. 2011. "Modeling and simulations of the spreading and destabilization of small nematic droplets." Physics of Fluids, vol. 23, pp. 043102, 1 - 11.
Nebojsa Murisic, Lou Kondic. 2011. "On Evaporation of Sessile Drops With Moving Contact Lines." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 679, pp. 219-246.
Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Nebojsa Murisic, Robert Behringer, Lou Kondic. 2011. "Evolution of droplets of perfectly wetting liquid under the influence of the thermocapillary forces." Physical Review E, vol. 83, pp. 046302, 1 - 8.
Yueying Wu, Jason Fowlkes, Philip Rack, Javier Diez, Lou Kondic. 2010. "On the Breakup of Patterned Nanoscale Copper Rings into Droplets via Pulsed-Laser-Induced Dewetting: Competing Liquid-Phase Instability and Transport Mechanisms." Langmuir, vol. 26, pp. 11972-11979.
Anthony D. Rosato, Oleksandr Dybenko, Vishagan Ratnaswamy, David J. Horntrop, Lou Kondic. 2010. "Microstructure Development in Tapped Granular Systems." Physical Review E, vol. 81, no. 061301, pp. 1-10.
Te-Sheng Lin, Lou Kondic. 2010. "Thin hanging films with fronts: two dimensional flow." Physics of Fluids, vol. 22, pp. 052105-1 -- 052105-10.
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