Ratcheting droplet pairs

Millimetric droplets may be levitated on the surface of a vibrating fluid bath. Eddi et al. [Europhys. Lett. 82, 44001 (2008)] demonstrated that when a pair of levitating drops of unequal size are placed nearby, they interact through their common wavefield in such a way as to self-propel through a r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Galeano-Rios, C. A., Couchman, M. M. P., Caldairou, P., Bush, John W. M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123527