Robert Schroll

I am a postdoc working with Eugenio Hamm and Enrique Cerda in the Departamento de Fisica at Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

My CV.

I use the Surface Evolver to simulate the behavior of thin sheets. Here are some files I used for a tutorial.

Here are some bits of code that I've written at one time or another. Maybe it's useful for others.

Publications

• A prototypical model for tensional wrinkling in thin sheets. Benny Davidovitch, Robert D. Schroll, Dominic Vella, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, and Enrique Cerda. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 108, 18227 (2011).
• Elastic building blocks for confined sheets. Robert D. Schroll, Eleni Katifori, and Benny Davidovitch. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 074301 (2011). [PDF]
• Impact of a viscous liquid drop. Robert Schroll, Christophe Josserand, Stéphane Zaleski, and Wendy Zhang. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034504 (2010). [PDF]
• Laser microfluidics: Fluid actuation by light. Jean-Pierre Delville, Mattheieu Robert de Saint Vincent, Robert D. Schroll, Hamza Chraïbi, Bruno Issenmann, Régis Wunenburger, Didier Lasseux, Wendy W. Zhang, and Etienne Brasselet. J. Opt. A 11, 034015 (2009).
• Robert Schroll. Solid Substrate and Head-on Impact of Viscous Drops. PhD thesis, University of Chicago, (2009).
• Bridging dielectric fluids by light: A ray optics approach. Robert D. Schroll, Etienne Brasselet, Alexis Casner, Wendy W. Zhang, and Jean-Pierre Delville. Eur. Phys. J. E 26, 405 (2008). [PDF]
• Liquid transport due to light scattering. Robert D. Schroll, Régis Wunenburger, Alexis Casner, Wendy W. Zhang, and Jean-Pierre Delville. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 133601 (2007). [PDF]
• Generalized synchronization of spatiotermporal chaos in a liquid crystal spatial light modulator. Elizabeth A. Rogers, Rita Karla, Robert D. Schroll, Atsushi Uchida, Daniel P. Lathrop, and Rajarshi Roy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 084101 (2004).
• Si(111) step fluctuations in reflection electron microscopy at 1100°C: Anomalous step-step repulsion. Robert D. Schroll, Saul D. Cohen, Theodore L. Einstein, Jean-Jacques Métois, Hailu Gebremariam, Howard L. Richards, and Ellen D. Williams. Appl. Surf. Sci. 212, 219 (2003).
• Si(111) step fluctuations at high temperature: Anomalous step-step repulsion. Saul D. Cohen, Robert D. Schroll, Theodore L. Einstein, Jean-Jacques Métois, Hailu Gebremariam, Howard L. Richards, and Ellen D. Williams. Phys. Rev. B 66, 115310 (2002).

Papers in preparation

• Near and far from threshold analysis of elastic plates. Ariel Arza, Robert D. Schroll, and Enrique Cerda. In preparation.
• A nonperturbative model for wrinkling in highly bendable sheets. Benny Davidovitch, Robert D. Schroll, and Enrique Cerda. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
• A sheet on a drop reveals wrinkling and crumpling as distinct symmetry-breaking instabilities. Hunter King, Robert D. Schroll, Benny Davidovitch, and Narayanan Menon. Submitted to Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.
• Simulating thin elastic sheets with the surface evolver. Lee A. Walsh, Robert D. Schroll, and Benny Davidovitch. In preparation.