 Lisa Manning
2008-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow
Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science
411-B Jadwin Hall
609-258-4783
I study mechanisms for deformation and failure in amorphous materials, friction laws for material interfaces, and transient growth of fluid modes in transition to turbulence. These are examples of dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom and heterogeneous behavior that can be modeled and analyzed using continuum equations. My research has focused on strain localization in a shear transformation zone (STZ) model for amorphous solids, the generalized stability of a fluid flowing past a flexible membrane, and numerical methods for solving hydrodynamic eigenvalue problems. I am also interested in constitutive models for biological tissues.
Recent publications:
- Strain localization in a shear transformation zone model for amorphous solids
M. L. Manning, J. S. Langer, and J. M. Carlson, Phys. Rev. E 76, 056106 (2007)
- Steady-state, effective-temperature dynamics in a glassy material
J. S. Langer and M. L. Manning, Phys. Rev. E 76 056107 (2007).
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