Oil droplet in alcohol

The elegant patterns formed by fluid droplets falling through a dissimilar liquid were first studied over a century ago.1 The emerging patterns are driven by hydrodynamic instabilities set up by velocity and density gradients between the liquids. We perform experiments using 3 mm droplets of naphthe...

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Main Authors: La Foy, Roderick R., Belden, Jesse, Truscott, Tadd T., Shih, Anna M., Techet, Alexandra H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79362
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3223-7400