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Ordered clusters and dynamical states of particles in a vibrated fluid

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Fluid-mediated interactions between particles in a vibrating fluid lead to both long range attraction and short range repulsion. The resulting patterns include hexagonally ordered micro-crystallites, time-periodic structures, and chaotic fluctuating patterns with complex dynamics. A model based on streaming flow gives a good quantitative account of the attractive part of the interaction.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0202127,
  title  = {Ordered clusters and dynamical states of particles in a vibrated fluid},
  author = {Greg A. Voth and B. Bigger and M. R. Buckley and W. Losert and M. P. Brenner and H. A. Stone and J. P. Gollub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0202127},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett