Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 66, Number 4, May 2004
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Page(s) | 545 - 551 | |
Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-10240-x | |
Published online | 01 May 2004 |
Rhythmic growth and collapse of a micro water droplet
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University & CREST Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Corresponding author: yoshikaw@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Received:
9
July
2003
Accepted:
23
March
2004
We report the rhythmic growth and disappearance of a
micrometer-sized water droplet under stationary nonequilibrium
conditions, with a periodicity of . Under a
supersaturated vapor, a micro water droplet nucleates on a glass
plate, grows and then disappears when the growing droplet touches
a larger water sink, and this cycle repeats in a rhythmic manner.
We discuss the rhythmic phenomenon as a kind of limit cycle
oscillation.
PACS: 68.03.-g – Gas-liquid and vacuum-liquid interfaces / 81.10.Bk – Growth from vapor / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems
© EDP Sciences, 2004
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