Abstract
This paper is associated with a poster winner of a 2017 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original poster is available from the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2017.GFM.P0018
Highlights
This paper is associated with a poster winner of a 2017 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion
A thin liquid film is initially deposited on the outside of a cylinder, which is rotated
The coating destabilizes due to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, forming drop lattices with a wavelength set by the balance between capillary forces and centrifugal forces
Summary
This paper is associated with a poster winner of a 2017 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. Patterns are ubiquitous in nature, ranging across myriad examples such as the hexagons in dry mud cracks, the arrangement of seeds in plants, the ripples forming on dirt roads, and our fingerprints [1]. Patterns have fascinated generations of scientists from mathematicians to biologists, who have studied the genesis of their shape and arrangement [2,3].
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