RPLab:Publications

1. A. G. McDonnell, S. Pan, D. Hill, M. K. Danquah, J. R. Friend, L. Y. Yeo and R. Prabhakar, "Microfluidic extensional rheology of suspensions of motile microbes", accepted for CHEMECA 2011, Sydney.
2. R. Prabhakar, "Predicting capillary thinning of dilute polymer solution filaments with an improved variable-friction model for polymeric stresses", accepted for CHEMECA 2011, Sydney.
3. S. Clark and R. Prabhakar, "Why are flagella helical?", accepted for CHEMECA 2011, Sydney.
4. S. Clark and R. Prabhakar, "Effect of helicity on wrapping and bundling of semi-flexible filaments twirled in a viscous fluid", Soft Matter, 7, 5536, 2011: DOI.
5. B. A. Horri, R. Prabhakar, C. Selomulya and H. Wang, "A new empirical viscosity model for ceramic suspensions", Chem. Eng. Sci., 66, 2798–2806, 2011: DOI.
6. P. K. Bhattacharjee, A. G. McDonnell, R. Prabhakar, L. Y. Yeo, and J. R. Friend, "Extensional flow of low viscosity fluids in capillary bridges formed by pulsed surface acoustic wave jetting", New J. Phys., 13, 023005, 2011: DOI.
7. G.M. Wang, R. Prabhakar, Y.X. Gao and E. M. Sevick, "Micro-rheology near fluid interfaces", J. Opt. A., 13, 044009, 2011: DOI.
8. G. M. Wang, R. Prabhakar,and E. M. Sevick, "Hydrodynamic Mobility of an Optically Trapped Colloidal Particle near Fluid-Fluid Interfaces", Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 248303, 2009: DOI.
9. E.M. Sevick, R. Prabhakar, S.R. Williams, and D.J. Searles, "Fluctuation Theorems", Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 59, 603--633, 2008: DOI.
10. R. Prabhakar, E. M. Sevick, and D. R. M. Williams, "Coarse-graining intramolecular hydrodynamic interaction in dilute solutions of flexible polymers", Phys. Rev. E, 76, 011809, 2007: DOI.
11. T. Sridhar, D. A. Nguyen, R. Prabhakar, and J. R. Prakash, "Rheological observation of the glassy dynamics of dilute polymer solutions near the coil-stretch transition in elongational flows", Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 167801, 2007: DOI.
12. R. Prabhakar, J. R. Prakash, and T. Sridhar, "Effect of configuration-dependent intramolecular hydrodynamic interaction on elasto-capillary thinning and break-up of filaments of dilute polymer solutions", J. Rheol., 50, 925--947, 2006: DOI.
13. R. Prabhakar and J. R. Prakash, "Gaussian approximation for finitely extensible bead-spring chains with hydrodynamic interaction", J. Rheol., 50, 561--593, 2006 DOI.
14. R. Prabhakar and J. R. Prakash, "Fast and accurate closure approximations for bead-spring models of dilute polymer solutions", Australia New Zealand Instt. Appl. Math. J., 46 (E), C 379-C 393, 2006.
15. R. Prabhakar, J. R. Prakash, and T. Sridhar, "A successive fine-graining scheme for predicting the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions", J. Rheol., 48, 1251--1278, 2004 DOI..
16. R. Prabhakar and J. R. Prakash, "Multiplicative separation of the influences of excluded volume, hydrodynamic interactions and finite extensibility on the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions", J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 116, 163--182, 2004 DOI.
17. R. Prabhakar, P. Sunthar and J. R. Prakash, "Exploring the universal dynamics of dilute polymer solutions in extensional flows", Physica A, 339, 34-39, 2004.
18. R. Prabhakar and J. R. Prakash, "Viscometric functions for Hookean dumbbells with excluded volume and hydrodynamic interactions", J. Rheol., 46, 1191-1220, 2002.