Building designed granular towers one drop at a time.

نویسندگان

  • Julien Chopin
  • Arshad Kudrolli
چکیده

A dense granular suspension dripping on an imbibing surface is observed to give rise to slender mechanically stable structures that we call granular towers. Successive drops of grain-liquid mixtures are shown to solidify rapidly upon contact with a liquid absorbing substrate. A balance of excess liquid flux and drainage rate is found to capture the typical growth and height of the towers. The tower width is captured by the Weber number, which gives the relative importance of inertia and capillary forces. Various symmetric, smooth, corrugated, zigzag, and chiral structures are observed by varying the impact velocity and the flux rate from droplet to jetting regime.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 107 20  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011