2018/07/31 by Rahil N. Valani, Anja C. Slim, Tapio Simula · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.123.024503
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 024503 (2019)
arxiv created 2019/06/21 · arxiv updated 2019/07/24
A walker is a droplet of liquid that self-propels on the free surface of an oscillating bath of the same liquid through feedback between the droplet and its wave field. We have studied walking droplets in the presence of two driving frequencies and have observed a new class of walking droplets, which we coin superwalkers. Superwalkers may be more than double the size of the largest walkers, may travel at more than triple the speed of the fastest ones, and enable a plethora of novel multi-droplet behaviors.