Marko Kleine Berkenbusch

Office RI 224a
The James Franck Institute
The University of Chicago
5640 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 702-7221

I am a 4th year graduate student in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago.

Research Interests

Viscous entrainment through a point sink

Currently, I am working on a fluid dynamics problem with Wendy Zhang. In this problem, I am looking at the deformations of liquid surfaces in a viscous straining flow. The model system consists of a semi-infinte liquid filled nozzle with a pendant drop at its end immersed in a second fluid. An external flow imposed on the outer fluid deforms the pendant drop. I am investigating this situation numerically using boundary integral methods.

Previously, I worked on a research project together with Leo Kadanoff on aspects of the "Stochastic Loewner Evolution" (SLE). Traces of the Loewner equation

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Publications

Discrete Charges on a Two Dimensional Conductor, M. Kl. Berkenbusch, I. Claus, C. Dunn, L. P. Kadanoff, M. Nicewicz, and S. C. Venkataramani. Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 116, Nos. 5/6, September 2004.

Trace for the Loewner Equation with Singular Forcing, L. P. Kadanoff and M. Kleine Berkenbusch. Nonlinearity, Vol. 17 issue 4, R41-R54 (2004).

Breaking atomic nuclei into little pieces: Evidence for a phase transition, W. Bauer, M. Kleine Berkenbusch, T. Bollenbach, Revista Mexicana de Fisica 49: 1-6, Suppl. 4, November 2003

Setting bounds on critical exponents with event-by-event analysis of nuclear fragmentation data, W. Bauer, M. Kleine Berkenbusch, et al., Acta Physica Hungarica new series-Heavy Ion Physics, 15(3-4): 417-426, 2002.

Event-by-event analysis of proton-induced nuclear multifragmentation, Marko Kl. Berkenbusch et al., Physical Review Letter, 88(2): Art. No. 022701, January 2002.

Interpretation of nuclear multifragmentation data in the framework of percolation models, M. Kleine Berkenbusch, Master thesis, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, June 2001. PDF

Presentations

"Rounded ends and near cusps: liquid interfaces in a viscous straining flow"
- APS Department of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 2004.

"Discrete charges on a two dimensional conductor"
- Understanding Complex Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2004.
- Computations in Science Seminar, University of Chicago, February 2004.
- Dynamics Days, Scottsdale, AZ, January 2003.

"Interpretation of nuclear multifragmentation data in the framework of percolation models"
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, May 2001.

"Comparison of nuclear multifragmentation data with model calculations applying to the Nuclear Lattice Model"
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February 2001.

"Noise induced phase transitions"
- Summer Academy, German National Academic Foundation, Molveno, Italy, September 1999.

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