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| author | Fischer, P. L. B. Tauber, J. Koch, T. Mahadevan, L. |
| author_facet | Fischer, P. L. B. Tauber, J. Koch, T. Mahadevan, L. |
| contents | Soft and frangible materials that remodel under flow can give rise to branched patterns shaped by material properties, boundary conditions, and the time scales of forcing. We present a general theoretical framework for emergent branching in these frangible (or threshold) materials that switch abruptly from resisting flow to permitting flow once local stresses exceed a threshold, relevant for examples as varied as dielectric breakdown of insulators and the erosion of soft materials. Simulations in 2D and 3D show that branching is adaptive and tunable via boundary conditions and domain geometry, offering a foundation for self-organized engineering of functional transport architectures. |
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| spellingShingle | Self-organized adaptive branching in frangible matter Fischer, P. L. B. Tauber, J. Koch, T. Mahadevan, L. Soft Condensed Matter Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Fluid Dynamics Soft and frangible materials that remodel under flow can give rise to branched patterns shaped by material properties, boundary conditions, and the time scales of forcing. We present a general theoretical framework for emergent branching in these frangible (or threshold) materials that switch abruptly from resisting flow to permitting flow once local stresses exceed a threshold, relevant for examples as varied as dielectric breakdown of insulators and the erosion of soft materials. Simulations in 2D and 3D show that branching is adaptive and tunable via boundary conditions and domain geometry, offering a foundation for self-organized engineering of functional transport architectures. |
| title | Self-organized adaptive branching in frangible matter |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26101 |