Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2010
feitoskb@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Research Description
Many ordinary materials such as grains, foams, pastes, paper, and thin shells, easily yield to gentle deformations, but their responses are often unpredictable and complex. For example, grain flows are prone to jamming and thin shells tend to buckle. Dr. Feitosa’s research focuses on understanding the origins of such complex behavior with the goal of preventing undesirable catastrophic failure while handling such soft materials and exploiting their complex behavior for sophisticated technological applications.
Education
- PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, 2004, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- MS in Physics, 2002, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- BS, 1994, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Select Publications
- Daniel C. Shorts and K. Feitosa, Experimental measurement of the angle of repose of a pile of soft frictionless grains, Granular Matter, 20, 2 (2018).
- S. Heerschap, J. N. Marafino, K. McKenna, K.L. Caran, and K. Feitosa, Foams Stabilized by Tricationic Amphiphilic Surfactants, Colloid Surface A, 487, 190 (2015).
- J. Clara-Rahola, T. A. Brzinski, D. Semwogerere, K. Feitosa, J. C. Crocker, J. Sato, V. Breedveld, and E. R. Weeks, Affine and nonaffine motions in sheared polydisperse emulsions. Phys. Rev. E, 91, 010301(R) (2015).
Department of Physics & Astronomy
