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Prof. Dominic Vella

BA, MMath, PhD (Cantab)
Status
Academic Faculty

Professor of Applied Mathematics

Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College

Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/vella/index.html
+44 1865 615150
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1341-8863
Research groups
  • Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Research interests

Elastic instabilities (particularly wrinkling and snap-through of thin elastic sheets)

Surface tension, adhesion and the interaction with elasticity (Elasto-capillarity)

 

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

2020 François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics (APS DFD)

2017 Philip Leverhulme Prize

2016 Recognition of Distinction (University of Oxford)

2015 Whitehead Prize (London Mathematical Society)

2014 ERC Starting Grant (04/15 – 03/20)

2012 Leverhulme Research Fellowship (04/13 – 03/15)

 

Teaching

Prelims Tutorials: Geometry, Dynamics, Constructive Maths

Part A Tutorials: Quantum Theory, Fluids & Waves

Lecturing: Part A Fluids & Waves

Major / recent publications

The most reliable source of information on my publications is my Publons or Google Scholar profiles.

Otherwise, some recent papers representative of my main research interests are:

F. Box, L. Domino, T. Outerelo Corvo, M. Adda-Bedia, V. Démery, D. Vella and B. Davidovitch, Delamination from an adhesive sphere: Curvature-induced dewetting versus buckling Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 120, e2212290120 (2023). 

    M. Liu, M. Gomez and D. Vella, Delayed bifurcation in elastic snap-through instabilities J. Mech. Phys. Solids 151, 104386 (2021).

    T. G. J. Chandler and D. Vella, Validity of Winkler's mattress model for thin elastomeric layers: Beyond Poisson's ratio, Proc. R. Soc. A 476, 20200551 (2020).

    F. Box, O. Kodio, D. O'Kiely, V. Cantelli, A. Goriely and D. Vella, Dynamic buckling of elastic rings in a soap film, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198003 (2020).

    F. Box, D. O'Kiely, O. Kodio, M. Inizan, A. A. Castrejón-Pita and D. Vella, Dynamics of wrinkling in ultrathin elastic sheets, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 116, 20875-20880 (2019).

    D. Vella, Buffering by buckling as a route for elastic deformation, Nat. Rev. Phys. 1, 425-436 (2019).

    A. T. Bradley, F. Box, I. J. Hewitt and D. Vella, Wettability-independent droplet transport by Bendotaxis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 074503 (2019).

    M. Gomez, D. E. Moulton, and D. Vella, Critical slowing down in purely elastic `snap-through' instabilities, Nat. Phys. 13, 142-145 (2017).

    J. D. Paulsen, E. Hohlfeld, H. King, J. Huang, Z. Qiu, T. P. Russell, N. Menon, D. Vella and B. Davidovitch, Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 1144-1149 (2016).

    D. Vella, H. Ebrahimi, A. Vaziri and B. Davidovitch, Wrinkling reveals a new isometry of pressurized elastic shells, EPL 112, 24007 (2015).

    D. Vella, J. Huang, N. Menon, T. P. Russell and B. Davidovitch, Indentation of ultrathin elastic films and the emergence of asymptotic isometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 014301 (2015).

    D. Vella, Floating versus Sinking, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 47, 115-135 (2015).

    D. Vella, A. Ajdari, A. Vaziri and A. Boudaoud, The indentation of pressurized elastic shells: From polymeric capsules to yeast cells, J. R. Soc. Interface 9 448 (2012).

    B. Davidovitch, R. D. Schroll, D. Vella, M. Adda-Bedia and E. Cerda, Prototypical model for tensional wrinkling in thin sheets, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 18227 (2011).

    D. Vella, J. Bico, A. Boudaoud, B. Roman and P. M. Reis, The Macroscopic Delamination of Thin Films from Elastic Substrates, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 10901 (2009).

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