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cond-mat.soft2016
Giant drag reduction due to interstitial air in sand
Tess Homan, Devaraj van der Meer
When an object impacts onto a bed of very loose, fine sand, the drag it experiences depends on the ambient pressure in a surprising way: Drag is found to increase significantly wit…
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Liquid-grain mixing suppresses droplet spreading and splashing during impact
Song-Chuan Zhao, Rianne de Jong, Devaraj van der Meer
Would a raindrop impacting on a coarse beach behave differently from that impacting on a desert of fine sand? We study this question by a series of model experiments, where the pac…