Breaking of a floating particle raft by water waves ...

• Main Authors: Saddier, Louis, Palotai, Ambre, Aksil, Matheo, Tsamados, Michel, Berhanu, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2023
• Subjects: Fluid Dynamics physics.flu-dyn; Soft Condensed Matter cond-mat.soft; FOS: Physical sciences; Water Bears; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2310.16188; https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16188

When particles of a few tens of microns are spread on the surface of water, they aggregate under the action of capillary forces and form a thin floating membrane, a particle raft. In a tank with a raft made of graphite powder, we generate in the laboratory gravity surface waves, whose wavelength {ab...