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 …

Levitation and self-organization of droplets

VS Ajaev, OA Kabov - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We review studies of levitating droplets over liquid–gas interfaces and dry solid surfaces
with a focus on the physical mechanisms of levitation under different conditions. A …

Structural puzzles in virology solved with an overarching icosahedral design principle

R Twarock, A Luque - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Viruses have evolved protein containers with a wide spectrum of icosahedral architectures
to protect their genetic material. The geometric constraints defining these container designs …

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 …

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 …

Drops bouncing on a vibrating bath

J Moláček, JWM Bush - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of
millimetric droplets bouncing on a vertically vibrating fluid bath. We first characterize the …

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 …

Faraday pilot-wave dynamics: modelling and computation

PA Milewski, CA Galeano-Rios, A Nachbin… - Journal of Fluid …, 2015 - cambridge.org
A millimetric droplet bouncing on the surface of a vibrating fluid bath can self-propel by virtue
of a resonant interaction with its own wave field. This system represents the first known …

A low-cost, precise piezoelectric droplet-on-demand generator

DM Harris, T Liu, JWM Bush - Experiments in Fluids, 2015 - Springer
We present the design of a piezoelectric droplet-on-demand generator capable of producing
droplets of highly repeatable size ranging from 0.5 to 1.4 mm in diameter. The generator is …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the theoretical modeling of walking droplets: Toward a generalized pilot-wave framework

SE Turton, MMP Couchman, JWM Bush - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The walking droplet system has extended the range of classical systems to include several
features previously thought to be exclusive to quantum systems. We review the hierarchy of …