Gas microfilms in droplet dynamics: When do drops bounce?

JE Sprittles - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In the last ten years, advances in experimental techniques have enabled remarkable
discoveries of how the dynamics of thin gas films can profoundly influence the behavior of …

Water droplet bouncing dynamics

X Yu, Y Zhang, R Hu, X Luo - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Droplet bouncing on surfaces has long been observed in nature and industry, which is
rather intriguing and instructive for related technology development. Recent decades have …

Learning dominant physical processes with data-driven balance models

JL Callaham, JV Koch, BW Brunton, JN Kutz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Throughout the history of science, physics-based modeling has relied on judiciously
approximating observed dynamics as a balance between a few dominant processes …

Emergent order in hydrodynamic spin lattices

PJ Sáenz, G Pucci, SE Turton, A Goujon, RR Rosales… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Macroscale analogues,–of microscopic spin systems offer direct insights into fundamental
physical principles, thereby advancing our understanding of synchronization phenomena …

Linear flow analysis inspired by mathematical methods from quantum mechanics

L Magri, PJ Schmid, JP Moeck - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Since its birth in the 1920s, quantum mechanics has motivated and advanced the analysis of
linear operators. In this effort, it significantly contributed to the development of sophisticated …

Measurement of impulsive thrust from a closed radio-frequency cavity in vacuum

H White, P March, J Lawrence, J Vera… - Journal of Propulsion …, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
A vacuum test campaign evaluating the impulsive thrust performance of a tapered radio-
frequency test article excited in the transverse magnitude 212 mode at 1937 MHz has been …

Hydrodynamic quantum analogs

JWM Bush, AU Oza - Reports on progress in physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The walking droplet system discovered by Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort presents an
example of a vibrating particle self-propelling through a resonant interaction with its own …

A trajectory equation for walking droplets: hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory

AU Oza, RR Rosales, JWM Bush - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
We present the results of a theoretical investigation of droplets bouncing on a vertically
vibrating fluid bath. An integro-differential equation describing the horizontal motion of the …

The new wave of pilot-wave theory

JWM Bush - Physics Today, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
While the founding fathers agonized over the question “particle” or “wave” de Broglie in
1925 proposed the obvious answer “particle” and “wave.”… This idea seems so natural and …

Minimal quantization model in pilot-wave hydrodynamics

AM Blitstein, RR Rosales, PJ Sáenz - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Investigating how classical systems may manifest dynamics analogous to those of quantum
systems is a broad subject of fundamental interest. Walking droplets, which self-propel …