Pilot-wave hydrodynamics

Yves Couder, Emmanuel Fort, and coworkers recently discovered that a millimetric droplet sustained on the surface of a vibrating fluid bath may self-propel through a resonant interaction with its own wave field. This article reviews experimental evidence indicating that the walking droplets exhibit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bush, John W. M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Annual Reviews 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89790
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-7256