@article{14514,
  abstract     = {The elastic Leidenfrost effect occurs when a vaporizable soft solid is lowered onto a hot surface. Evaporative flow couples to elastic deformation, giving spontaneous bouncing or steady-state floating. The effect embodies an unexplored interplay between thermodynamics, elasticity, and lubrication: despite being observed, its basic theoretical description remains a challenge. Here, we provide a theory of elastic Leidenfrost floating. As weight increases, a rigid solid sits closer to the hot surface. By contrast, we discover an elasticity-dominated regime where the heavier the solid, the higher it floats. This geometry-governed behavior is reminiscent of the dynamics of large liquid Leidenfrost drops. We show that this elastic regime is characterized by Hertzian behavior of the solid’s underbelly and derive how the float height scales with materials parameters. Introducing a dimensionless elastic Leidenfrost number, we capture the crossover between rigid and Hertzian behavior. Our results provide theoretical underpinning for recent experiments, and point to the design of novel soft machines.},
  author       = {Binysh, Jack and Chakraborty, Indrajit and Chubynsky, Mykyta V. and Diaz Melian, Vicente L and Waitukaitis, Scott R and Sprittles, James E. and Souslov, Anton},
  issn         = {1079-7114},
  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},
  number       = {16},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Modeling Leidenfrost levitation of soft elastic solids}},
  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.168201},
  volume       = {131},
  year         = {2023},
}

@misc{14523,
  abstract     = {see Readme file},
  author       = {Binysh, Jack and Chakraborty, Indrajit and Chubynsky, Mykyta and Diaz Melian, Vicente L and Waitukaitis, Scott R and Sprittles, James and Souslov, Anton},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  title        = {{SouslovLab/PRL2023-ModellingLeidenfrostLevitationofSoftElasticSolids: v1.0.1}},
  doi          = {10.5281/ZENODO.8329143},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{10733,
  abstract     = {When a cylindrical object penetrates granular matter near a vertical boundary, it experiences two effects: its center of mass moves horizontally away from the wall, and it rotates around its symmetry axis. Here we show experimentally that, if two identical intruders instead of one are released side-by-side near the wall, both effects are also detected. However, unexpected phenomena appear due to a cooperative dynamics between the intruders. The net horizontal distance traveled by the common center of mass of the twin intruders is much larger than that traveled by one intruder released at the same initial distance from the wall, and the rotation is also larger. The experimental results are well described by the Discrete Element Method (DEM), which reveals that, as the number of intruders horizontally released side-by-side increases, the total energy dissipation per intruder decreases. Finally, DEM simulations demonstrate that the horizontal repulsion is substantially enhanced if groups of intruders are released forming a column near the wall.},
  author       = {Espinosa, M. and Diaz Melian, Vicente L and Serrano-Muñoz, A. and Altshuler, E.},
  issn         = {1434-7636},
  journal      = {Granular Matter},
  keywords     = {granular matter, boundary effects, intruder penetration, sedimentation},
  number       = {1},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Intruders cooperatively interact with a wall into granular matter}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s10035-021-01200-8},
  volume       = {24},
  year         = {2022},
}