Mechanical Properties of Acoustically Levitated Granular Rafts

We investigate a model system for the rotational dynamics of inertial many-particle clustering, in which submillimeter objects are acoustically levitated in air. Driven by scattered sound, levitated grains self-assemble into a monolayer of particles, forming mesoscopic granular rafts with both an ac...

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Main Authors: Melody X. Lim, Bryan VanSaders, Anton Souslov, Heinrich M. Jaeger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2022-04-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021017