Nonaxisymmetric Shapes of a Magnetically Levitated and Spinning Water Droplet

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Dec 2008

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Physical Review Letters, vol. 101, Issue 23, id. 234501

Physics

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Drops And Bubbles, Hydrodynamic Models, Black Holes

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The shape of a weightless spinning liquid droplet is governed by the balance between the surface tension and centrifugal forces. The axisymmetric shape for slow rotation becomes unstable to a nonaxisymmetric distortion above a critical angular velocity, beyond which the droplet progresses through a series of 2-lobed shapes. Theory predicts the existence of a family of 3- and 4-lobed equilibrium shapes at higher angular velocity. We investigate the formation of a triangular-shaped magnetically levitated water droplet, driven to rotate by the Lorentz force on an ionic current within the droplet. We also study equatorial traveling waves which give the droplet threefold, fourfold, and fivefold symmetry.

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