https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-10328-3
Faraday patterns in lubricated thin films
1
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Laboratoire J.A.
Dieudonné,
Parc Valrose,
06108
Nice Cedex 2,
France
2
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Santiago,
Av. Ecuador 3493, Santiago, Chile
3
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y
Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Av. Blanco Encalada 2008, Santiago, Chile
a e-mail: mederic.argentina@unice.fr
Received:
31
May
2010
Received in final form:
14
October
2010
Published online:
3
December
2010
We study the patterns observed in the vicinity of a Faraday instability, in the limit of a very thin layer of viscous fluid. We numerically solve our previous model [N.O. Rojas et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187801 (2010)] and compare our predictions to experiments. Our model captures quantitatively the threshold of instability. The direct simulation of our system permits us to predict the patterns observed in experiments.
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