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Rolling spinners on the water surface
Jean-Baptiste Gorce, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Hua Xia +3
Angular momentum of spinning bodies leads to their remarkable interactions with fields, waves, fluids, and solids. Orbiting celestial bodies, balls in sports, liquid droplets above…
Tractor beam on the water surface
Horst Punzmann, Nicolas Francois, Hua Xia +2
Can one send a wave to bring an object from a distance? The general idea is inspired by the recent success in moving micro particles using light and the development of a tractor be…
Three-dimensional fluid motion in Faraday waves: creation of vorticity and generation of two-dimensional turbulence
N. Francois, H. Xia, H. Punzmann +2
We study the generation of 2D turbulence in Faraday waves by investigating the creation of spatially periodic vortices in this system. Measurements which couple a diffusing light i…
Taylor particle dispersion during transition to fully developed two-dimensional turbulence
H. Xia, N. Francois, H. Punzmann +1
We report new measurements of single particle dispersion in turbulent two-dimensional (2D) flows. Laboratory experiments in electromagnetically driven and Faraday wave driven turbu…
Power Fluctuations and Irreversibility in Turbulence
Haitao Xu, Alain Pumir, Gregory Falkovich +5
The breaking of detailed balance, the symmetry between forward and backward probability transition between two states, is crucial to understand irreversible systems. In hydrodynami…
Inverse energy cascade and emergence of large coherent vortices in turbulence driven by Faraday waves
N. Francois, H. Xia, H. Punzmann +1
We report the generation of large coherent vortices via inverse energy cascade in Faraday wave driven turbulence. The motion of floaters in the Faraday waves is three dimensional b…