Douglas J. Durian

Douglas J. Durian obtained his undergraduate and graduate physics degrees from The University of Chicago and Cornell University in 1984 and 1989, respectively. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Exxon Research and Engineering, he joined the physics faculty at the University of California Los Angeles, in 1991. In 2004, he became a Professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he has enjoyed visiting positions at laboratories in Paris and in Strasbourg. Durian was appointed Sigma-Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 2003–2005, he was named Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005, and he was elected Member at Large of the APS Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics for the term 2005–2008. His general interests are in soft condensed matter, with particular emphasis on use of multiple light scattering and microfluidics to study the evolution and jamming of granular media, foams, emulsions, and colloids.

Biography Updated on 4 July 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Measurement of growing dynamical length scales and prediction of the jamming transition in a granular material
    Nature Physics, vol. 3, no. 4, Article ID nphys572, 4 pages, 2007
  2. Unified force law for granular impact cratering
    Nature Physics, vol. 3, no. 6, Article ID nphys583, 3 pages, 2007
  3. Shape and erosion of pebbles
    Physical Review E, vol. 75, no. 2, 2007
  4. Free drainage of aqueous foams: Container shape effects on capillarity and vertical gradients
    Europhysics Letters (EPL), vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 695–701, 2007
  5. Photon channelling in foams
    Europhysics Letters (EPL), vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 414–419, 2007
  6. Bubble kinetics in a steady-state column of aqueous foam
    Europhysics Letters (EPL), vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 683–689, 2006
  7. Gaussian and non-Gaussian speckle fluctuations in the diffusing-wave spectroscopy signal of a coarsening foam
    Applied Optics, vol. 45, no. 10, p. 2199, 2006
  8. Approach to jamming in an air-fluidized granular bed
    Physical Review E, vol. 74, no. 3, 2006
  9. What Is in a Pebble Shape?
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 97, no. 2, 2006
  10. Speckle-visibility spectroscopy: A tool to study time-varying dynamics
    Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 76, no. 9, p. 093110, 2005
  11. Electrical conductivity of dispersions: from dry foams to dilute suspensions
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 17, no. 41, pp. 6301–6305, 2005
  12. Statistical characterization of the forces on spheres in an upflow of air
    Physical Review E, vol. 71, no. 1, 2005
  13. Penetration depth for shallow impact cratering
    Physical Review E, vol. 71, no. 5, 2005
  14. Partition of energy for air-fluidized grains
    Physical Review E, vol. 72, no. 3, 2005
  15. Dynamics of shallow impact cratering
    Physical Review E, vol. 72, no. 4, 2005
  16. Statistical mechanics of a gas-fluidized particle
    Nature, vol. 427, no. 6974, Article ID nature02294, 2 pages, 2004
  17. Dynamics of normal and superfluid fogs using diffusing-wave spectroscopy
    Physical Review E, vol. 69, no. 6, 2004
  18. Projectile-shape dependence of impact craters in loose granular media
    Physical Review E, vol. 68, no. 6, 2003
  19. Light scattering from superfluid fog
    Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 329-333, pp. 230–231, 2003
  20. Nature, vol. 412, no. 6845, pp. 391–392, 2001
  21. Hysteresis and packing in gas-fluidized beds
    Physical Review E, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 4442–4445, 2000
  22. Instabilities in a Liquid-Fluidized Bed of Gas Bubbles
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 84, no. 13, pp. 3001–3004, 2000
  23. From Avalanches to Fluid Flow: A Continuous Picture of Grain Dynamics Down a Heap
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 85, no. 20, pp. 4273–4276, 2000
  24. Shear-Induced “Melting” of an Aqueous Foam
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 213, no. 1, pp. 169–178, 1999
  25. Uniform foam production by turbulent mixing: new results on free drainage vs. liquid content
    The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 67–73, 1999
  26. Statistics of shear-induced rearrangements in a two-dimensional model foam
    Physical Review E, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 4385–4396, 1999
  27. Vanishing elasticity for wet foams: Equivalence with emulsions and role of polydispersity
    Journal of Rheology, vol. 43, no. 6, p. 1411, 1999
  28. Diffusing-light spectroscopies beyond the diffusion limit:â??The role of ballistic transport and anisotropic scattering
    Physical Review E, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 4498–4515, 1998
  29. Bubble-scale model of foam mechanics:mMelting, nonlinear behavior, and avalanches
    Physical Review E, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 1739–1751, 1997
  30. Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy of Dynamics in a Three-Dimensional Granular Flow
    Science, vol. 275, no. 5308, pp. 1920–1922, 1997
  31. Particle Motions in a Gas-Fluidized Bed of Sand
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 79, no. 18, pp. 3407–3410, 1997
  32. Two-stream theory of diffusing light spectroscopies
    Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 229, no. 2, pp. 218–235, 1996
  33. Angular distribution of diffusely transmitted light
    Physical Review E, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 3215–3224, 1996
  34. Nonlinear Bubble Dynamics in a Slowly Driven Foam
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 75, no. 13, pp. 2610–2613, 1995
  35. Foam Mechanics at the Bubble Scale
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 75, no. 26, pp. 4780–4783, 1995
  36. Viscous and elastic fingering instabilities in foam
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 72, no. 21, pp. 3347–3350, 1994
  37. Scaling of transient hydrodynamic interactions in concentrated suspensions
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 68, no. 16, pp. 2559–2562, 1992
  38. Wetting transitions in a cylindrical pore
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 65, no. 15, pp. 1897–1900, 1990