Phenomena

Galloping Bubbles

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A buoyant bubble rises until it’s stopped by a wall. What happens, this video asks, if that wall vibrates up and down? If the vibration is large enough, the bubble loses its symmetry and starts to gallop along the wall. Using numerical simulations, the team determined the flow around the bubble. They also demonstrate several possible applications for this behavior: sorting bubbles by size, traversing mazes, and cleaning a surface. (Video and image credit: J. Guan et al.)

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