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  1. Localized tension–induced giant folding in unstructured elastic sheets

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Dominic Vella

  2. Delamination from an adhesive sphere: Curvature-induced dewetting versus buckling

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Dominic Vella

  3. Evaporation effects in elastocapillary aggregation

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  4. The shallow shell approach to Pogorelov's problem and the breakdown of ‘mirror buckling’

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, March 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Dominic Vella

  5. On the role of buoyant flexure in glacier calving

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  6. The role of extensibility in the birth of a ruck in a rug

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Dominic Vella

  7. Wrinkling, creasing, and folding in fiber-reinforced soft tissues

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Dominic Vella

  8. Dynamics of Ion Transport in Ionic Liquids

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella, Svyatoslav Kondrat

  9. Propagation of damage in brain tissue: coupling the mechanics of oedema and oxygen delivery

    Article • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dominic Vella

  10. Inertial rise of a meniscus on a vertical cylinder

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  11. Floating Versus Sinking

    Article • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, January 2015, Annual Reviews

    Dr Dominic Vella

  12. Are Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids Dilute Electrolytes?

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, January 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  13. Indentation of Ultrathin Elastic Films and the Emergence of Asymptotic Isometry

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  14. Unravelling nanoconfined films of ionic liquids

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Dominic Vella

  15. Optimal Fractal-Like Hierarchical Honeycombs

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  16. The “footloose” mechanism: Iceberg decay from hydrostatic stresses

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Povl Abrahamsen, Dr Dominic Vella

  17. Particle capture efficiency in a multi-wire model for high gradient magnetic separation

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, July 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Dominic Vella

  18. A fluid-mechanical model of elastocapillary coalescence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  19. Anisotropic Blistering Instability of Highly Ellipsoidal Shells

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  20. The effect of a concentration-dependent viscosity on particle transport in a channel flow with porous walls

    Article • AIChE Journal, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Dominic Vella

  21. Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of droplet evaporation

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Dominic Vella

  22. Elastometry of Deflated Capsules: Elastic Moduli from Shape and Wrinkle Analysis

    Article • Langmuir, September 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jan Kierfeld, Dr Dominic Vella

  23. Switch on, switch off: stiction in nanoelectromechanical switches

    Article • Nanotechnology, June 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Dominic Vella

  24. Wrinkling in the deflation of elastic bubbles

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dominic Vella

  25. The ‘Sticky Elastica’: delamination blisters beyond small deformations

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Dominic Vella

  26. The Mechanics of a Chain or Ring of Spherical Magnets

    Article • SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, January 2013, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  27. Indentation of Ellipsoidal and Cylindrical Elastic Shells

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  28. Multiple equilibria in a simple elastocapillary system

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  29. The capillary interaction between two vertical cylinders

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, June 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Dominic Vella

  30. The sensitivity of graphene “snap-through” to substrate geometry

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, June 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Dominic Vella

  31. A viscoelastic regime in dilute hydrophobin monolayers

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Dominic Vella

  32. Wrinkling of Pressurized Elastic Shells

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  33. Floating Carpets and the Delamination of Elastic Sheets

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  34. Leakage from inclined porous reservoirs

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  35. Finger Rafting

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Wettlaufer, Dr Dominic Vella

  36. The collective motion of nematodes in a thin liquid layer

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Dominic Vella

  37. On the measurement of the surface pressure in Langmuir films with finite shear elasticity

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Dominic Vella

  38. Leakage from gravity currents in a porous medium. Part 1. A localized sink

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  39. Leakage from gravity currents in a porous medium. Part 2. A line sink

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  40. The impulsive motion of a small cylinder at an interface

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Dominic Vella

  41. Statics and Inertial Dynamics of a Ruck in a Rug

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  42. The effect of a fissure on storage in a porous medium

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  43. Granular Character of Particle Rafts

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  44. Explaining the patterns formed by ice floe interactions

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    John Wettlaufer, Dr Dominic Vella

  45. Floating Objects with Finite Resistance to Bending

    Article • Langmuir, August 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  46. The waterlogging of floating objects

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  47. Surface tension dominated impact

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Dominic Vella

  48. Finger Rafting: A Generic Instability of Floating Elastic Sheets

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    John Wettlaufer, Dr Dominic Vella

  49. The Load Supported by Small Floating Objects

    Article • Langmuir, July 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  50. Dynamics of Surfactant-Driven Fracture of Particle Rafts

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  51. Gravity currents in a porous medium at an inclined plane

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  52. Sinking of a Horizontal Cylinder

    Article • Langmuir, March 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  53. Equilibrium conditions for the floating of multiple interfacial objects

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella

  54. A Simple Microscopic Model for the Dynamics of Adhesive Failure

    Article • Langmuir, January 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  55. The “Cheerios effect”

    Article • American Journal of Physics, January 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Dr Dominic Vella

  56. The wall-induced motion of a floating flexible train

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dominic Vella