Pilot-wave hydrodynamics

JWM Bush - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Advances in fabricating double-emulsion droplets and their biomedical applications

DT Chong, XS Liu, HJ Ma, GY Huang, YL Han… - Microfluidics and …, 2015 - Springer
Double-emulsion droplets have found widespread applications in various engineering and
biomedical fields because of their capability in encapsulating different components in each …

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 …

Generation of secondary droplets in coalescence of a drop at a liquid–liquid interface

B Ray, G Biswas, A Sharma - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2010 - cambridge.org
When a droplet of liquid 1 falls through liquid 2 to eventually hit the liquid 2–liquid 1
interface, its initial impact on the interface can produce daughter droplets of liquid 1. In some …

Coalescence stability of water-in-oil drops: Effects of drop size and surfactant concentration

NI Politova, S Tcholakova, S Tsibranska… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2017 - Elsevier
We study the effects of (1) drop size;(2) surfactant chain-length and concentration; and (3)
viscosity of the oil phase on the stability of water drops, pressed by gravity towards planar oil …

The influence of surface tension gradients on drop coalescence

F Blanchette, L Messio, JWM Bush - Physics of fluids, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We present the results of a combined experimental and numerical investigation of the
coalescence of a drop with a liquid reservoir of a miscible but distinct fluid. Particular …

Droplet impact on vibrating superhydrophobic surfaces

PB Weisensee, J Ma, YH Shin, J Tian, Y Chang… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
Many unanswered questions remain pertaining to droplet dynamics during impact on
vibrating surfaces. Using optical high-speed imaging, we investigate the impact dynamics of …

The fluid trampoline: droplets bouncing on a soap film

T Gilet, JWM Bush - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009 - cambridge.org
We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of droplets
falling onto a horizontal soap film. Both static and vertically vibrated soap films are …

Maximum size of drops levitated by an air cushion

JH Snoeijer, P Brunet, J Eggers - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2009 - APS
Liquid drops can be kept from touching a plane solid surface by a gas stream entering from
underneath, as it is observed for water drops on a heated plate, kept aloft by a stream of …