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We report a new type of fluid-based driven dissipative oscillator system consisting of a lattice of millimetric fluid droplets bouncing on a vertically vibrating liquid bath and bound within an annular ring. We characterize the system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-27 Stuart J. Thomson , Miles M. P. Couchman , John W. M. Bush

We consider the dynamics of a droplet on a vibrating fluid bath. This hydrodynamic quantum analog system is shown to elicit the canonical behavior of damped-driven systems, including a period doubling route to chaos. By approximating the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Aminur Rahman , J. Nathan Kutz

Walking droplets -- millimetric oil droplets that self-propel across the surface of a vibrating fluid bath -- exhibit striking emergent statistics that remain only partially understood. In particular, in a variety of experiments, a robust…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-28 Skyler Mao , David Darrow

Damped-driven systems are ubiquitous in science, however the damping and driving mechanisms are often quite convoluted. This manuscript presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of a fluidic droplet on a vertically vibrating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-12 Aminur Rahman

Discrete dynamical models of walking droplets ("walkers") have allowed swift numerical experiments revealing heretofore unobserved quantum statistics and related behaviors in a classical hydrodynamic system. We present evidence that one…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-06 George Zhang , Ivan C. Christov , Aminur Rahman

A droplet bouncing on the surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath can walk horizontally, guided by the waves it generates on each impact. This results in a self-propelled classical particle-wave entity. By using a one-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-14 Rahil N. Valani , Anja C. Slim , David M. Paganin , Tapio P. Simula , Theodore Vo

Droplets abound in nature and technology. In general, they are multicomponent, and, when out of equilibrium, with gradients in concentration, implying flow and mass transport. Moreover, phase transitions can occur, with either evaporation,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-11 Detlef Lohse , Xuehua Zhang

We study the phenomenon of the "walking droplet", by means of numerical fluid dynamics simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics numerical method. This phenomenon occurs when a millimetric drop is released on the surface of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-17 Diego Molteni , Enrico Vitanza , Onofrio Rosario Battaglia

Droplets bouncing on a vibrated liquid bath open ways to methods of manipulating droplets, creating double emulsion and performing pilot wave model experiments. In this work, we focus on the role of the droplet deformations in the vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Denis Terwagne , François Ludewig , Nicolas Vandewalle , Stéphane Dorbolo

Inspired by the observation of intricate and beautifully dynamic patterns generated by food coloring on clean glass slides, we have investigated the behavior of propylene glycol and water droplets on high energy surfaces. In this fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-16 Nate J Cira , Manu Prakash

We present a deep-learning based tracking objects of interest in walking droplet and granular intruder experiments. In a typical walking droplet experiment, a liquid droplet, known as \textit{walker}, propels itself laterally on the free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Erdi Kara , George Zhang , Joseph J. Williams , Gonzalo Ferrandez-Quinto , Leviticus J. Rhoden , Maximilian Kim , J. Nathan Kutz , Aminur Rahman

Walking droplets are millimetric fluid drops that propel themselves across a vibrated liquid bath through interaction with their self-generated waves. They constitute classical active wave-particle entities and exhibit a range of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-06 Titir Mukherjee , Rahil N Valani , Soumitro Banerjee

We aim to describe a droplet bouncing on a vibrating bath using a simple and highly versatile model inspired from quantum mechanics. Close to the Faraday instability, a long-lived surface wave is created at each bounce, which serves as a…

In a set of experiments, Couder et. al. demonstrate that an oscillating fluid bed may propagate a bouncing droplet through the guidance of the surface waves. We present a dynamical systems model, in the form of an iterative map, for a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 David Shirokoff

This article is an invitation. It is, first, an invitation to consider as a subject worthy of attention the wide range of situations where small discrete elements, either bubbles, droplets or solid particles, are embedded in turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jean-Pierre Minier , Christophe Henry

A droplet bouncing on the surface of a vibrating liquid bath can move horizontally guided by the wave it produces on impacting the bath. The wave itself is modified by the environment, and thus the interactions of the moving droplet with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-19 Rahil N. Valani , Anja C. Slim

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics concerns the dynamics of 'walkers,' droplets walking on a vibrating bath, and has provided the basis for the burgeoning field of hydrodynamic quantum analogs. We here explore a theoretical model of pilot-wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-22 Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov , Davis J. Evans , Joel B. Been , John W. M. Bush

The problem of the movement of the drops in a continuous environment represents a fundamental step for the study of two phases flows. Their domains of application are enormous as: the combustion of the rooms of the machines thermal,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-06-29 H. Alla , M. Abdelouahab , B. Alli Talha , F. Z . Beloufa

We present the results of a theoretical investigation of the dynamics of a droplet walking on a vibrating fluid bath under the influence of a harmonic potential. The walking droplet's horizontal motion is described by an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Matthieu Labousse , Anand U. Oza , Stéhane Perrard , John W. M. Bush

A drop bouncing on a vertically-vibrated surface may self-propel forward by standing waves and travels along a fluid interface. This system called walking drop forms a non-quantum wave-particle association at the macroscopic scale. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-25 Adrien Hélias , Matthieu Labousse
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