Ordered clusters and dynamical states of particles in a vibrated fluid

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jun 10;88(23):234301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.234301. Epub 2002 May 20.

Abstract

Fluid-mediated interactions between particles in a vibrating fluid lead to both long range attraction and short range repulsion. The resulting patterns include hexagonally ordered microcrystallites, time-periodic structures, and chaotic fluctuating patterns with complex dynamics. A model based on streaming flow gives a good quantitative account of the attractive part of the interaction.