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Intermittent Motility of a Synthetic Active Particle in Changing Environments
Rudra Sekhri, Rahil N. Valani, Tapio Simula
We experimentally investigate the dynamics of synthetic active particles composed of gravitationally bouncing, superwalking droplets confined within an annular fluid bath. Driven b…
Numerical Simulations of a Superwalking Droplet
Rahil N. Valani, Tapio P. Simula, Anja C. Slim
A new class of walking droplets, coined superwalkers, has been observed when a bath of silicone oil is vibrated simultaneously at a given frequency and its subharmonic tone with a…
Liquid Time Crystals
Tapio Simula
We have constructed and characterised an instrument to study gravitationally bouncing droplets of fluid, subjected to periodic driving force. Our system incorporates a droplet prin…
Stop-and-go locomotion of superwalking droplets
Rahil N. Valani, Anja C. Slim, Tapio P. Simula
Vertically vibrating a liquid bath at two frequencies, and , having a relative phase difference can give rise to self-propelled superwalking droplets on the liquid…
Unsteady dynamics of a classical particle-wave entity
Rahil N. Valani, Anja C. Slim, David M. Paganin +2
A droplet bouncing on the surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath can walk horizontally, guided by the waves it generates on each impact. This results in a self-propelled cla…
Emergence of superwalking droplets
Rahil Valani, Jack Dring, Tapio Simula +1
A new class of self-propelled droplets, coined superwalkers, has been shown to emerge when a bath of silicone oil is vibrated simultaneously at a given frequency and its subharmoni…
Superwalking droplets
Rahil N. Valani, Anja C. Slim, Tapio Simula
A \textit{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…
Hong-Ou-Mandel-like two-droplet correlations
Rahil N. Valani, Anja C. Slim, Tapio Simula
We present a numerical study of two-droplet pair correlations for in-phase droplets walking on a vibrating bath. Two such walkers are launched towards a common origin. As they appr…